After Summer - Softcover

Earls, Nick

3.57

510 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844286304 ISBN 13: 9781844286300

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 2004

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School is over for Alex Delaney and he's waiting for his university offer - only seventeen days away. Waiting, waiting, bodysurfing, watching a bit of TV...but mainly waiting. So he's not ready for the girl who cuts past him on a wave. Not at all prepared for her perfect balance on the board, the bare, elegant muscles of her shoulders and back. Summer is about to change...

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Review:

"Earls lets this minimally plotted story unfold with the languidness of summer, quietly and slowly. His language is appropriately rhythmic and smooth as he tells a wistful, familiar tale of a summer romance that quietly and realistically captures the feelings of a first love."

"Appealingly, Earls
doesn't make a big deal about his characters' worlds colliding. He just
throws together individuals with seemingly different personalities and
philosophies and lets them all get along." --Horn Book

"Appealingly, Earls doesn't make a big deal about his characters' worlds colliding. He just throws together individuals with seemingly different personalities and philosophies and lets them all get along." --Horn Book

"The story of summer love may not be new, but After Summer is tender and enticing, and will touch many teens' hearts." School Library Journal

"Appealingly, Earls doesn't make a big deal about his characters' worlds colliding. He just throws together individuals with seemingly different personalities and philosophies and lets them all get along." --Horn Book Horn Book

About the Author:

Nick Earls has been described by The Daily Mirror as "the first Aussie to make me laugh since Jason Donovan." The author of nine books, his work has been published internationally and translated into several languages. After Summer - published in Australia as After January - was his first novel and won its category of the Talking Book of the Year Awards, as well as being included by the International Youth Library in its selection of notable books from around the world. His book 48 Shades of Brown won the 2000 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Older Readers' Award and is currently being developed into a feature film. Nick studied Medicine at the University of Queensland and has worked as a GP among other jobs. He lives in Brisbane and now writes full-time.

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