Bringing the Summer

It's the lazy end of summer and Freya is about to start her A levels. Her brother Joe died a year ago, but she is slowly coming to terms with his death. She is beginning to feel ready for something new - a change. And then a railway accident brings her by chance into contact with the gorgeous Gabe. Freya is drawn not just to Gabe himself and his blond good looks, but everything about him, including his large, shambolic, warm and loving family, which seems to Freya so different to her own family of three. And then Gabe's clearly troubled older brother makes it clear he is interested in Freya - and Freya has some decisions to make about what she really wants.

Julia Green is the main tutor for the MA in Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, and has had three novels published by Puffin. This is her third novel for Bloomsbury, her first being Breathing Underwater. Julia lives in Bath.