In this sizzling Deep South debut novel, with its echoes of Carson McCullers and Harper Lee, four young people come of age in small-town Mississippi where racial tension lies just below the surface - as does an unknown body in a shallow grave.
"It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life," says Haley Ellyson in this captivating novel about first love and loss of innocence, set in the fictional town of Houser Banks. Abandoned by her mother and raised by her good ol' boy father, beautiful Haley, who has broken the heart of every boy in town, has two secrets that give her power but make her vulnerable.
Rich with unforgettable characters, mesmerising prose, and smouldering sexual tension, 'The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me' captures all the intensity and exhilaration of young love and rebellion, and signals the arrival of an uncommonly gifted new writer.
