Ebook {Epub PDF} The Summer of Secrets by Sarah Jasmon

 · ‘Sarah Jasmon’s debut The Summer of Secrets is an evocative and atmospheric coming-of-age story. Set in idyllic countryside, this novel is a meticulous rendering of young friendship.’.  · Helen is the main character in The Summer of Secrets by Sarah Jasmon. FInd out about the character's background and motivation from the author bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. The Summer of Secrets is a very well written and believable debut by Sarah Jasmon, full of mystery and secrets, which will have you needing to get to the end to find out the truth, while hoping at the same time there are no secrets inside you that you've been hiding from yourself!/5(30).

'Sarah Jasmon's debut The Summer of Secrets is an evocative and atmospheric coming-of-age story. Set in idyllic countryside, this novel is a meticulous rendering of young friendship.' CARYS BRAY, author of Costa-shortlisted A SONG FOR ISSY BRADLEY Read full review here 'A lovely coming-of-age story about one long hot summer in Sarah Jasmon lives on a canal boat in Lancashire, which is also the setting for her two novels - The Summer of Secrets and You Never Told Me. She has written short stories for a wide selection of publications and in was shortlisted for the Harper's Bazaar short story competition. She is an Associate Tutor in Creative Writing at. The Summer of Secrets recounts one teenager's languid and almost mundane summer holiday; lazy days spend in the garden, sometimes in solitude, other times with her new friends in tow. It doesn't sound like a hugely compelling set-up, yet Sarah Jasmon's beautiful writing, combined with the enthralling hints to a far greater event taking place.

The Summer of Secrets is highly atmospheric, Jasmon successfully making the reader feel the intense heat of Helen’s summer with the Dovers and her own experience of living on a canal boat making the novel’s setting highly authentic. The slow-burning plot in this book is like a ticking time bomb, the summer’s events being revealed bit by bit, both to the adult Helen and to us. ‘Sarah Jasmon’s debut The Summer of Secrets is an evocative and atmospheric coming-of-age story. Set in idyllic countryside, this novel is a meticulous rendering of young friendship.’ Set in idyllic countryside, this novel is a meticulous rendering of young friendship.’. The Summer of Secrets by Sarah Jasmon was published on 13 August in paperback by Black Swan (an imprint of Transworld), and is the author's debut novel. Sometimes slow, often evocative and always beautifully written; The Summer of Secrets is a coming-of-age story set during the summer months of and is interwoven with the present-day life of lead character Helen.