The Summer I Turned Pretty
Every July, Belly Conklin trades her ordinary life for the one she loves best: summer at Cousins Beach, in the house her mother shares with her closest friend, Susannah Fisher. It is the place where Belly has spent every summer of her life, tagging along after Susannah's two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, always the little sister, always waiting to be noticed.
The summer she turns sixteen, everything is different. Belly has grown up, and the boys who never took her seriously suddenly do. As first crushes sharpen into something more complicated, she finds herself pulled between the brooding, unreachable Conrad and the warm, easy Jeremiah—while a quiet worry hums beneath the golden days, a family secret that will change all of them.
The first book in Jenny Han's beloved trilogy, later adapted for television, The Summer I Turned Pretty is a tender coming-of-age romance about first love, shifting friendships, and the bittersweet ache of growing up over one unforgettable summer.
Sixteen-year-old narrator navigating first love and growing up at Cousins Beach.
Warm, easygoing younger Fisher brother.
Belly's older brother.
Brooding elder Fisher brother; Belly's longtime crush.
This title is the first installment of a three-part trilogy, and the narrative arc is designed to be followed sequentially through the subsequent books, It's Not Summer Without You and We'll Always Have Summer.
The trilogy has been adapted into a three-season television series on Amazon Prime Video, and a feature film has been announced to conclude the overarching story.
