Summer Heat: 'Vivid, evocative and tender' Elif Shafak

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One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik she leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known only to her through a brief email exchange, Petros has contacted her out of the blue, asking for a tour of Istanbuls Byzantine churches. Melike, intrigued, agrees to help. The place they arrange to meet, the Church of Saint Mary of Mongols, holds tender memories for Melike, located right across from where her long-dead grandmother lies. But what Melike at first assumes is a coincidence soon gives way to something much greater. And as she begins to realise Petross real motivations, long-held secrets begin to unravel

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'Vivid, evocative and tender' * Elif Shafak *
'Summer Heat is a gorgeous, sensual novel, immersing you in the heat and spices of Istanbul, the earth and salt of Buyukada, the blood and secrets of war-torn Cyprus. I happily lost myself in it' * Jane Johnson *
Praise for Defne Suman: A dazzling narrative New York Times Sumans voice and descriptions are so unique and enveloping Buki Papillon Suman gives life a new order with the power of her literature Burhan Snmez Vivid and moving' Womans Own

Author Bio

Defne Suman was born in Istanbul and grew up on Buyukada. She gained a Masters in sociology from the Bosphorus University, then worked as a teacher in Thailand and Laos where she studied Far Eastern philosophy and mystic disciplines. She later continued her studies in Oregon, USA and now lives in Athens with her husband. Her English language debut The Silence of Scheherazade was published by Head of Zeus in 2021. Find out more: defnesuman.com; @defnesuman