In this book, the author tells the story of Clarissa, a young girl, and the change her life goes through amidst troubled times. It was the beginning of summer and, unbeknown to any of us then, the end of a belle époque… But the vibration of change was upon us and I sensed a shift: a realignment of my trajectory. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no alteration, as far as I’m aware, in the earth’s axis that day. I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. Her subsequent novels include The Memory of Lost Senses (2013), The Snow Globe (2015) and The Echo of Twilight (2017). She debuted with the book The Last Summer, which was published in the UK, Canada and British Commonwealth countries in 2012, in the USA in 2013, and has been translated into several languages including German, Spanish, French and Italian. She is a former Woman of the Year and Fellow of the RSA. Judith Kinghorn was born in Northumberland, England, and is a graduate in English and History of Art.
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