Summer with Mary-Lou

by Stefan Casta

Adam and Mary-Lou's friendship is a powerful and emotionally turbulent one. Finding themselves with the summer alone together at Adam’s family house by the lake, the couple alternate between facing up to the challenges of life and trying to escape or ignore them.

Stefan Casta has an enviable talent for expressing the beauty and simplicity of daily life, whilst also reminding us of the complexity and unpredictability of human nature. The setting and the characters are so convincingly rendered that at times the reader feels as connected as a third member of the trio.

Ultimately, the book has no choice but to leave certain questions unanswered and to caution the reader that life simply does not come with a ‘happy ever after’ guarantee.

NB: The only disappointment with this beautiful and memorable book may be the glimpses of rather dated terminology such as ‘handicapped’ and ‘confined to a wheelchair’.

Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

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What you thought

I loved It but did not have a great ending. The author did not answer if mary-lou jumped of the chery tree which was one of my burning questions! I loved the connection between adam and mary-lou and how they were getting over the and also delving into the fact that mary-lou was in the weelchair and looking at the emotinal aspects of it. It has to be on one of my top 5 book list! :D xx

Rating: 4 star

thebooklover

london

26 October 2012