Thanks to Ava Kavyani, Freelance Publicist and the author, Emylia Hall, I am giving away one copy of The Book of Summers.
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.
Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary.
Since then, Beth hasn’t allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid, painful and vital as ever.
Emylia Hall was born in the U.K. in 1978 and grew up in the Devon countryside, the daughter of an English artist and a Hungarian quilt maker. After studying at York University and in Lausanne, Switzerland, Emylia spent five years working in a London advertising agency before moving to the French Alps. It was there that she began to write. Emylia’s short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, and Elle Magazine (U.K.) named her one of 2012’s most anticipated debut novelists. Emylia now lives in Bristol with her husband, also an author.
