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Dance On My Grave

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9781529130232

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Dance On My Grave

  • Summer of 85

Look out for 'Summer of 85', the movie based on Aidan Chambers's 1982 novel Dance on My Grave by groundbreaking French director Francois Ozon.

'The film is an opportunity to think about yourself, to think about your life, about your love, about your purpose... But mostly I just want people to enjoy this story as much as I did when I first discovered it.' Francois Ozon, Director in AnOther.

Deftly captures the giddy thrill of first love but also hints that a gut-wrenching tragedy is coming. The result is an incredibly poignant film exploring how love and loss are often horribly intertwined. NME

A sweet, gay romance that gradually morphs into something more suspenseful and macabre - Daily Telegraph

Summer of '85 is a very memorable and charming film about young love. It's a film that will take you back to your first summer love. The Gay UK

Life in his seaside town is uneventful for Hal Robinson, nothing unusual, exciting or odd ever happens to him - until now that is. Until the summer of his 16th birthday when he reaches a crossroads of choices in life. He foolishly takes a friend's boat for a day's sailing, gets into difficulty and is rescued by Barry Gorman. Their ensuing relationship results in a tumultuous summer for Hal as he experiences the intense emotions of his first teenage love.

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9781529130232

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • Ozon first read Chambers's novel as a teenager and his adaptation blends the prickly joy of that first encounter with the stylistic confidence of a film-maker revisiting an old flame.

    Mark Kermode, The Guardian

  • A sweet, gay romance that gradually morphs into something more suspenseful and macabre

    The Daily Telegraph

  • A standard teenage romance, stylishly mounted and sensitively played

    The Times

  • The film is an opportunity to think about yourself, to think about your life, about your love, about your purpose... But mostly I just want people to enjoy this story as much as I did when I first discovered it

    AnOther, Francois Ozon

  • Deftly captures the giddy thrill of first love but also hints that a gut-wrenching tragedy is coming. The result is an incredibly poignant film exploring how love and loss are often horribly intertwined.

    Nick Levine, NME

  • Summer of '85 is a very memorable and charming film about young love. It's a film that will take you back to your first summer love.

    The Gay UK

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About the Author

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Aidan Chambers

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