Gods of Summer

On Friday night Heloise will host a party. Vernon hopes Sophia will come. Danny prays Kate will not. Lyla longs for something perfect. Lucien knows it cannot be with him. Molly hungers after Bruce, who hungers after the canapés. Nothing can prevent Charles from making a speech. These are the gods of summer; soon they will be seventeen.

Gods of Summer is a return to the days when dreams kept you up at night and life was a flood of vivid feelings: a time of first kisses and final exams, fluttering hearts and laughing fits, fifth-period blues, after-school frolics, and intimations of tremendous things.

Here is a novel to make you feel sixteen again. Here is a novel to remind you what the madness meant.

Praise for Gods of Summer:

“A book bursting with poetry, joy, tenderness and foolishness” - Ebrione Roi
”Both light and deep” - Rose Cousens
”A warm-blooded book, a book with soul” - Mose Velsor
”Half foolishness, half wisdom… Alistair Johnston is the Evelyn Waugh of the Lower North Shore” - Sammy Clemens
”The funniest book of the year" - Theodore Winthrop-Wadley