The Girls of Summer

Hardback Published on: 25/05/2023
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The Girls of Summer
Does truth depend on your perspective?
A beautifully written deeply emotive revisiting of past events and viewing them anew from an adult viewpoint. Familiar contemporary issues considered from... READ MORE
Linda@{Livingston]
The Girls of Summer
A subtly tense summer read
This book manages to have this perfect level of tension all the way throughout as Rachel relives her incredible summer on a Greek island realising that per... READ MORE
Becca Withers
The Girls of Summer
Gripping summer thriller!
The Girls of Summer gripped me in a way that a lot of t of books don't. I was drawn to it because, like myself, the central character spent time working on... READ MORE
Emma-Bristol Galleries
The Girls of Summer
Dark, atmospheric and emotional
This novel had me feeling unsettled the whole way through. At times I was inwardly shouting at Rachel and found her rather unlikeable. This often made it d... READ MORE
Kerry - Ballymena
The Girls of Summer
The Girls of Summer is a must read!
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The Girls of Summer is an atmospheric sundrenched novel, alternating chapters between Rac... READ MORE
Cat at Newcastle

Synopsis

A sun-soaked island. An all-consuming romance. The best summer of your life... but what if everything you remember was a lie?

Rachel has loved Alistair since she was seventeen. Even though she hasn't seen him for sixteen years and she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is almost twenty years older than her.

Now in her thirties, Rachel has never been able to forget their golden summer together on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island. But as dark and deeply suppressed memories rise to the surface, Rachel begins to understand that Alistair - and the enigmatic, wealthy man he worked for - controlled much more than she ever realized. Rachel has never once considered herself a victim - until now.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781787636002
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 33 mm
  • Weight: 559g
  • Languages: English

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The Girls of Summer
Beautifully written and a powerful story
I absolutely loved reading this book! Simply could not put it down! Highly recommend!!!
Audrey Chikasha
The Girls of Summer
Very well written
This story is gripping from the outset. Set in two timelines, it is a story about Rachel, a girl who travels with her friend to a Greek island, to experie... READ MORE
Cathy Mincher
The Girls of Summer
An intense and thought-provoking summer read
This is not at all your typical beach read! Told in a dual time frame of then and now, and with sinister overtones from the start, its main theme is not on... READ MORE
KarensBookBag
The Girls of Summer
This book is extremely topical at the moment!
This book is a rather timely and an extremely topical book at the moment about older men abusing the power they have over younger women. I defy anyone not ... READ MORE
Vivienne
The Girls of Summer
Bishop’s first book, and I think it’s superb!
The Girls of Summer Katie Bishop 5 of 5 stars 6/27/2023 Rachel and Caroline are on a Greek island-hopping vacation the summer before their A levels. Rachel... READ MORE
CAT Thomas
The Girls of Summer
Thought provoking debut novel about the loss of innocence
My thanks to Random House U.K. Transworld Bantam for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘The Girls of Summer’ by Katie Bishop. This debut is described as a ‘book cl... READ MORE
Vivienne O'Regan
The Girls of Summer
Mystery set in GREECE
Rachel is a 17 year old girl, who is due to go on to her final year of studies at school. In the intervening Summer months, she decamps with her friend to ... READ MORE
TripFiction
The Girls of Summer
OK, clichéd at times
This was an ok book, the beginning didn't grab me and I then found it quite difficult to be interested in the characters who seemed a bit clichéd at times,... READ MORE
jean
The Girls of Summer
The Girls of Summer
This story is gripping from the outset. Set in two timelines, it is a story about Rachel, a girl who travels with her friend to a Greek island, to experie... READ MORE
Cathy Mincher
The Girls of Summer
A Powerful Read
At first I wasn’t sure this book was for me. How wrong was I? A powerful, slowly developing plot, revealing insight and essential understanding on a tricky... READ MORE
Sarah C
The Girls of Summer
An important book!
I guessed fairly on what this book is about. It is an important book to read as Rachel’s story could happen to anyone. Gap years are popular and travelling... READ MORE
Helen Pugh
The Girls of Summer
Jeffrey Epstein Creepiness
Life on the island seems idyllic and why wouldn't you want to hang around in the sun when you've got an easy job and accommodation paid for. This is how R... READ MORE
Georgie M
The Girls of Summer
Exceptional debut
I really enjoyed this! It started as what appeared to be a typical thriller but the more I read the more complex and unique it became. The author captured ... READ MORE
Sophie Flynn
The Girls of Summer
Gripping and important
Long ago on a Greek island, 17 year old Rachel fell in love with an older man. The summer they spend together is full of sunshine, parties and secrets. No... READ MORE
Elizabeth Sopp
The Girls of Summer
What to make of the past...
The issues and themes are definitely of the moment. The events experienced by a seventeen year old young woman in a seemingly golden summer in a Greek isla... READ MORE
Clarisa Butler
The Girls of Summer
Absorbing and emotional.
The Girls of Summer is a clever and absorbing novel - a story of a life in retrospect where all that glitters is not gold. The beautifully atmospheric set... READ MORE
Elizabeth Wilkins
The Girls of Summer
A good book to get your teeth into
I really enjoyed getting my teeth into this book. It’s clever in its depiction of grooming and abuse, pulling you into the point of view of a victim of sex... READ MORE
Stacey Bateman
The Girls of Summer
Dark and Disturbing but Enjoyable Read
A very dark, disturbing and uncomfortable read at times, tackling difficult subjects such as rape, sexual exploitation, sex trafficking and coercive contro... READ MORE
Susan Blissett
The Girls of Summer
A really gripping read however, it covers some really sensitive themes
I didn’t know what to expect when I first started to read this book, it starts off on a island somewhere in Greece (you’re never told which one though). Wh... READ MORE
Sarah -Bookworm Extraordinaire
The Girls of Summer
Girls of summer
The pace of the first half of the book was great the second half was good maybe a sun soaked first half led to the romance of the story but when it all goe... READ MORE
Claire Flanagan
The Girls of Summer
A dark, bubbling debut
The Girls of Summer is at times a disturbing read, tackling issues of subtle abuse disguised as work and fun. Written from one girls perspective throughout... READ MORE
Suzanne Ellison
The Girls of Summer
Compelling reading
3.5 rounded up The summer that Rachel spends on a Greek island at the age of seventeen casts a shadow over her life as the love she feels for Alistair ... READ MORE
Celia Short
The Girls of Summer
A great first novel for the #MeToo generation
Katie Bishop manages to conjure up sun-soaked holidays of teenagers really well in her first novel, "The Girls of Summer". We follow Rachel and Caroline t... READ MORE
Mel Pretorius
The Girls of Summer
A little slow
Although I think I should love this book due to its very #MeToo theme, it didn’t really grab me. It was interesting in that we all romanticise our first lo... READ MORE
Karen Farrow
The Girls of Summer
A must read!
This book started off being an easy to read twin timeline story of Rachel now and the summer she turned 18, it started to hint at some dark themes around t... READ MORE
MunchKim
The Girls of Summer
The reality of Grooming and abuse distorted by immaturity
A married women struggling to accept the humdrum existence of her life, is fixated on a period two decades before , when during a summer holiday she bec... READ MORE
George  Young
The Girls of Summer
An awesome, thought provoking debut
This book consumed my thoughts. I spent 3 days reading it, and when I wasn't reading, I was thinking about it! This awesome debut is about 17 year old Ra... READ MORE
Natalie Lee
The Girls of Summer
Girls of summer
The pace of the first half of the book was great the second half was good maybe a sun soaked first half led to the romance of the story but when it all goe... READ MORE
Claire Flanagan
The Girls of Summer
one for your reading list...
The Girls of Summer is a well written book set in two time zones. Then, 15 years ago on a Greek Island and Now, present day UK. We follow Rachel's story ... READ MORE
Frances
The Girls of Summer
Mixed feelings
I have mixed feelings about this book. The story may be triggering for people who may have been in this situation. Rachel, aged 17 goes on a girls holi... READ MORE
Trevene  Highfield
The Girls of Summer
Gripping & Amazing
A story that I related to on a very personal level. I was aprehensive at first and ended up finishing it in 3 days.
Carla Bluck Penedo