An astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.
Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.
An Evening Standard ‘One to Watch in 2023’
Linnéa
2025-12-18
Fruktansvärt sorglig men välskriven.
Sim
2025-10-01
A very deep, deep dive into the mind of one young girl, who falls in love with another girl and never gets over it. It made me think of my own first feelings of being in love, of realising I’m gay and of fearing how my parents would take it all. The things we do for love... Lucy is every queer kid trying to figure life out. I hope that eventually she did figure it out. Like I did. Great read. Great narration. Worth the hype.
Saskia
2025-08-23
loved it
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