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In this moving debut novel set over one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss and and a startling secret. A transporting summer read for fans of Into the Blue, Lily King, The Paper Palace, Elin Hilderbrand and The Wedding People.
'A novel about grief and first love...tender and precise' Coco Mellors
'The book of the summer. It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting' Elin Hilderband
'Sun-drenched... a glittering debut' Jenny Jackson
'A love letter to summer romance' New York Times Book Review
The first summer Ruth arrives on Block Island, she is seventeen, her mother is dead and she has nothing in her pocket but a receipt scrawled with the name Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, takes Ruth in, and the island becomes the refuge she returns to each June. It is a place to grieve, to write - and to fall in love for the first time, with Diana's nephew Charlie.
Now, ten years on, Diana dies suddenly and Ruth's world is turned upside down once more. She goes to Block Island to admit her feelings to Charlie - but he has his own revelation to share. And when Ruth receives a box left to her in Diana's will, its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her...
Salt-kissed and moving, June Baby is a tender slow burn about love, grief and the crossroads of life, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and fading sunsets.
Genre: General Fiction
'A novel about grief and first love...tender and precise' Coco Mellors
'The book of the summer. It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting' Elin Hilderband
'Sun-drenched... a glittering debut' Jenny Jackson
'A love letter to summer romance' New York Times Book Review
The first summer Ruth arrives on Block Island, she is seventeen, her mother is dead and she has nothing in her pocket but a receipt scrawled with the name Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, takes Ruth in, and the island becomes the refuge she returns to each June. It is a place to grieve, to write - and to fall in love for the first time, with Diana's nephew Charlie.
Now, ten years on, Diana dies suddenly and Ruth's world is turned upside down once more. She goes to Block Island to admit her feelings to Charlie - but he has his own revelation to share. And when Ruth receives a box left to her in Diana's will, its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her...
Salt-kissed and moving, June Baby is a tender slow burn about love, grief and the crossroads of life, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and fading sunsets.
Genre: General Fiction
Praise for this book
"The kind of gorgeous book that carries us back to the sharp sweet days of longing and late sunlight, summer days that are always more than themselves, where we grow to become the people we are now. . . . Absorbing and moving, I loved every second of my time with Ruth on the island - a world of salt, sorrow, and immeasurable love." - Sarah Blake
"A real find . . . Shannon Garvey is a writer of depth and vivid detail, and I was swept away by her story of Ruth's breathless summer of decision. This absorbing novel is an honest examination of the choices - of love, friendship, and vocation - a young woman faces, that feels fresh and alive." - Judy Blundell
"Amid white sand dunes and star-kissed nights, this tender debut aches with longing as it explores how the idea of love can sometimes outlast love itself. . . . A layered, hopeful meditation on grief, second chances, and the home found within each of us." - Emma Brodie
"From its opening pages, June Baby transports readers to the wind-swept dunes and watercolor skies of Block Island - and the quiet, impossible decisions we face in our twenties. Through an unflinching lens, Shannon Garvey explores the choices we do and don't get to make as we navigate loss and opportunity with gorgeous prose. This shimmering debut about the agony and thrill of growing up is a dazzler." - Beck Dorey-Stein
"The book of the summer! It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting." - Elin Hilderbrand
"A sun-drenched novel of love, tragedy, beauty, and creativity, June Baby is a glittering debut novel from an exciting new voice." - Jenny Jackson
"What a treat to get lost in the sharply drawn, salt-washed world of June Baby. This novel about grief, first love, and the slow, uncertain work of growing up is tender and precise, and Garvey's prose reveals a writer of real emotional intelligence and depth." - Coco Mellors
"A real find . . . Shannon Garvey is a writer of depth and vivid detail, and I was swept away by her story of Ruth's breathless summer of decision. This absorbing novel is an honest examination of the choices - of love, friendship, and vocation - a young woman faces, that feels fresh and alive." - Judy Blundell
"Amid white sand dunes and star-kissed nights, this tender debut aches with longing as it explores how the idea of love can sometimes outlast love itself. . . . A layered, hopeful meditation on grief, second chances, and the home found within each of us." - Emma Brodie
"From its opening pages, June Baby transports readers to the wind-swept dunes and watercolor skies of Block Island - and the quiet, impossible decisions we face in our twenties. Through an unflinching lens, Shannon Garvey explores the choices we do and don't get to make as we navigate loss and opportunity with gorgeous prose. This shimmering debut about the agony and thrill of growing up is a dazzler." - Beck Dorey-Stein
"The book of the summer! It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting." - Elin Hilderbrand
"A sun-drenched novel of love, tragedy, beauty, and creativity, June Baby is a glittering debut novel from an exciting new voice." - Jenny Jackson
"What a treat to get lost in the sharply drawn, salt-washed world of June Baby. This novel about grief, first love, and the slow, uncertain work of growing up is tender and precise, and Garvey's prose reveals a writer of real emotional intelligence and depth." - Coco Mellors
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