the Summer Without You

The boyfriend of our hero Rowenna announces that he is going to Borneo for six months and will then return to start an engagement.

A stunned “Roe”, through a slightly unlikely series of events, ends up renting a room for the summer in a fancy house in the exclusive Hamptons. Although living in London she is American by birth so starts up a photography business to make ends meet.

She meets and gets to know the locals, their relationships, politics and business dealings and becomes very involved in all of them.

I listened to this as an audio book and being a cold and wet British March it was lovely to sneak away to a sun kissed moneyed paradise with lots of interesting people!

I’m not sure that I fully followed the machinations behind the business dealings that lead to the unfortunate incident on the golf course that was expounded in the final chapters but that wasn’t the primary story here. What we really wanted to know was how Roe would resolve the tangled relationships she finds herself further into and once the absent boyfriend turns up things get even more complicated!

Yes, this is a bit of a comfort read but it is full of real characters that we do care about, it’s always fun to read about rich people and their belongings! (Pomellato gets a name check here!) and this was a fun listen from the ever reliable pen of Ms Swan.