02418cam a2200361 i 4500 811331902 TxAuBib 20230525120000.0 230209s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023002000 9781250283917 HRD 28.00 1250283914 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Bishop, Katie,. The girls of summer / Katie Bishop. First U.S. edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. 313 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteeny ears. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair's summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake. But as Rachel becomes increasingly obsessed with reliving the events of so long ago, she reconnects with the other girls who were similarly drawn to life on the island, where the nights were long, the alcohol was free-flowing and everyone acted in ways they never would at home. And as she does so, dark and deeply suppressed secrets about her first love affair begin to rise to the surface, as well as the truth about her time working for an enigmatic and wealthy man, who controlled so much more than she could have ever realized. Joining a post #MeToo discourse, The Girls of Summer grapples with themes of power, sex, and consent, as it explores the complicated nature of memory and trauma--and what it takes to reframe, and reclaim, your own story"-- Provided by publisher. 20230531. jz. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Memory Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Psychic trauma Fiction. Self-acceptance in women Fiction. Greece Fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels.