- Secrets, First loves, Camps, Nineteen seventies
It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new-found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Graham Joyce
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575115316
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