Summer Hours

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It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve.

When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant amount of money under the guise of 'freelance work', Roisin thinks her luck might finally be changing. But Claire's proposal is not all it seems, and soon Roisin finds herself trapped. Paralysed by both her intense infatuation with Eve and her secret arrangement with Claire, Roisin must walk a delicate line to avoid losing what matters to her most.

'Everything about this book is alive. I inhaled it' Maria Sledmere, author and critic

'A spry tale of friendship and desire, best inhaled in a single sitting.Summer Hoursis astute, funny, and fizzing with life' Malachy Tallack

'Alessandra's writing is bothvivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise and an enviable instinct for rhythm' Daisy Lafarge

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'A spry tale of friendship and desire, best inhaled in a single sitting.Summer Hoursis astute, funny, and fizzing with life'

-- Malachy Tallack

'a vital and vivid examination of life in the modern world,'

* SNACK Magazine, 10 Books for 2025 *

'Alessandras writing is both vivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise and an enviable instinct for rhythm. Whether its subject is family legacy and memory or the precarities of young adulthood, this is writing attuned apparently effortlessly to both atmospheric subtleties and the timeless antagonisms of intimacy'

-- Daisy Lafarge

'Everything about this book is alive. I inhaled it'

-- Maria Sledmere, author and critic

'Thom perfectly summons up a sultry and stultifying summer that threatens to utterly derail her protagonist. Gulp it down with a cool drink at hand'

-- Lynsey May

'the most compelling read.... a brilliant coming of age novel, beautifully written and sensitively presented'

-- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *

Author Bio

Alessandra Thomis a writer from Aberdeenshire. She was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 and the second-place runner-up in theShort FictionInternational Short Story Prize 2024. Her short fiction has appeared inGutter.Summer Hoursis her first novel.