My Summer of Love (novel)
2001 novel by Helen Cross / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Summer Of Love is a novel by Helen Cross, first published in Great Britain in 2001, winning a Betty Trask Award in the subsequent year.
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Author | Helen Cross |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication date | 2001 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 256 pp (first edition, paperback) |
ISBN | 0-7475-5276-2 (first edition, paperback) |
OCLC | 47985253 |
Set in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Whitehorse, and the surrounding area, it tells the story of the intense relationship that develops between Tamsin and Mona, two 15-year-old girls of different social classes. Mona narrates as a recollection for the entire novel, though it is not clear how much time has passed since the events she is describing. In the first chapter, she brings us[tone] back to the present with cryptic references to the end of the tale, but after this the narrative is uninterrupted and stays in the past tense.
In 2004, a film based on the novel was released, but it was a fairly free adaptation, and differs from the novel in a number of ways.