Three Summers

byMargarita Liberaki, Karen Van Dyck (Translator), Polly Samson (Introducer)
'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .'

Three Summers
is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become.

The written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs. I liked it much more than Elena Ferrante's books, but that's the general ballpark, except jollier. As Polly Samson writes in the preface, it brings to mind I Capture the Castle. Gorgeous

India Knight, Sunday Times

About Margarita Liberaki

Details
  • Series: Penguin European Writers
  • Imprint: Viking
  • ISBN: 9780241475065
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 196g
  • Price: £9.99
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