The End of Summer

Name: The End of Summer
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Salha Al Busaidy
ISBN: 9798822607538

Author: Salha Al Busaidy

Narrator: Salha Al Busaidy

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: The Dreamwork Collective

Published: 09/23/2022

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Fiction, Religious Fiction

Synopsis

Twenty-two-year-old Summer is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, she’s stubborn, she’s clever, and she’s very opinionated on life as a millennial Muslim woman. The only problem is that she is dead.When her younger sister, Sara, finds Summer’s lifeless body on their bathroom floor, Summer can only watch as a devastated Sara calls the rest of her family to announce her death. With no way back to her body and no idea how she died, Summer remains a helpless observer as members of her devoted, dysfunctional family come back home to bury her – and her secrets.As Summer pieces together the events of the night before, she starts unravelling her whole life: the fabric of her British-Omani-Zanzibari family, the culture clashes, the depression that dogged her for years, and the childhood trauma that changed her forever…Riveting and heart-breaking, Summer’s haunting story is one you will never forget.

Reviews

Goodreads review by LENA on July 03, 2018

Love Pilcher! Loved "The End of Summer" Rosamunde has a unique writing style which can be so absorbing that when you finally reach the final page you look around and the sun has come up! Fast paced, easily read, set in Scotland... What more could you possibly ask for?......more

Goodreads review by Sotiris on September 14, 2020

Summer is slowly coming to an end so with this book in mind it made sense for me to decide to read it now. Almost from the beginning, I realize that I was right as the beautiful descriptions of Scotland's autumn landscape brought to my mind the appropriate images for this season that will soon be ne......more

Goodreads review by Chrissie on June 13, 2021

The summary for this long short story says a lot — except that Sinclair and Jane are first cousins, which would be more understandable if this were farther back in the realm covered by historical fiction, but it's only set in the 1960s (originally published in 1971). So much opportunity to do more o......more

Goodreads review by Ann on August 18, 2017

A very short book, not a patch on 'The Shell Seekers'. It must have been written in the 60s but was only published in the UK in 90s, I assume the publishers were trading on Rosamunde Picher's success, it was rather disappointing. The characters weren't at all likeable, with the exception of David. T......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on September 11, 2023

Certainly not the Shell Seekers. Jilly Bond is a great narrator.......more