NEW RELEASE
One Perfect Summer - Paige Toon (2012)
Alice is spending her last summer holiday before university staying at a cottage in Dorset with her parents. At the local pub, she spies the gorgeous bartender Joe, whose parents run the venue. The two teens start spending all their time together but Joe's family are far from welcoming. After a heartbreaking incident, the pair is split up and Alice goes off to Cambridge, hoping Joe will visit her. But he never does. Instead she meets Lukas, a student from a wealthy German family. Should she move on with her life with Lukas - or wait for her first love to come back? The story - split into three main timeframes - is simply enchanting, although the end section seemed somewhat rushed.
Paige Toon's sixth novel One Perfect Summer sees a girl reunited with her first love. The summary says: "'Do you still love him?' Every second of every minute of every hour of every day... While on holiday in Dorset one summer, Alice meets Joe, a guy working at the local pub. She's 18 and about to start university, while Joe's life is seemingly going nowhere. But despite their differences, the pair fall in love. And then summer comes to an end and they are dramatically torn apart. Alice heads off to university in Cambridge where she slowly picks up the pieces of her broken heart. One day Lukas - a gorgeous golden boy from Cambridge University - spies her and it's not long before Alice falls for his charms. Months turn into years, but then Joe comes back into Alice's life again in a way that she could never have imagined. She never stopped loving him, but he's out of her reach now, surely? And what about Lukas?" One Perfect Summer is out in May.