The Secret Summer
By (Author) Ali Standish
Hachette Children's Group
Orchard Books
23rd April 2019
18th April 2019
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
294g
Discover an island of buried secrets ... A captivating coming-of-age story from the Carnegie-nominated author of THE ETHAN I WAS BEFORE
Miranda misses her mum. The mum who used to laugh at her jokes and take her to Disneyworld. But something happened that stopped all that - now Miranda's mum is always hurrying away on another work trip and can barely look Miranda in the eye. So when Miranda is sent to spend the summer on August Isle, where her mum grew up, she is determined to unlock the secrets that are breaking her family apart.Ali Standish, author of the critically acclaimed The Ethan I Was Before, split her time growing up between North Carolina and several imaginary worlds. The only award she ever won in school was for messiest desk, but that didn't stop her from going on to get degrees from Pomona College, Hollins University and the University of Cambridge. She still spends most of her time in her imagination, but you might just spot her walking her two rescue dogs with her Finnish husband around her neighbourhood in North Carolina. You can visit her online at www.alistandish.com.