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One Golden Summer

a novel
Pages
401
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Alice Everly is most comfortable behind a camera, letting other people take the spotlight. The summer she turns thirty-three, she brings her grandmother Nan to Barry's Bay, the Ontario lake town where Nan once spent a golden season of her own. Their quiet stay is upended by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.

Charlie Florek is all grown up now: a shameless flirt who makes Nan laugh and makes Alice long to feel seventeen again. As one slow lakeside summer unfolds, Alice has to decide whether to stay safely behind the lens or step into a picture of her own.

A warm, nostalgic romance that returns to the world of Every Summer After while standing fully on its own.

How it reads

  • Writing
    4.0
  • Impact
    5.0
  • Characters
    4.0
  • Plot
    4.0
  • Atmosphere
    5.0
Prose complexity 1/10
Spice level
3.0 avg spice
Readers say (1)Moderate · Moderate · Nostalgic · Lighthearted