Summer Hours

A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story about youth and desire, class and wealth, secrets and mistakes, sex and obsession.

About the author

Alessandra Thom is a writer from Aberdeenshire. She was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 and the second-place runner-up in the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize 2024. Her short fiction has appeared in Gutter. Summer Hours is her first novel.

Summary

A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story about youth and desire, class and wealth, secrets and mistakes, sex and obsession.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandra Thom
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781846976711
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-671-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction, Category fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family