David M. Barnett's novels include Calling Major Tom and The Handover (US title: Same Time, Same Place).
His new novel is There Is a Light That Never Goes Out. "Though a slow-burner set over 10 years," he writes, "the pivotal action takes place during the summer months."
At the Guardian Barnett tagged ten favorite sizzling summer love stories, including:
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2015)Read about the other entries on the list.
I wanted to include Daisy Jones & the Six here, because the artfully veiled story about Fleetwood Mac feels drenchedin faded Polaroid 1970s Californian sunshine. But Reid’s earlier novel is far more appropriately summery. After drifting through life, Hannah Martin is faced with an apparently simple choice in a bar one night: go home with her best friend and flatmate or take a ride with her high school boyfriend, back on the scene. She does both, in alternating chapters that show how split-second decisions can have huge repercussions.
Maybe in Another Life is among Phoebe Fox's seven books to help you cope with heartbreak.
--Marshal Zeringue
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