Onesentence blurbIn 1941, eighteenyearold Lille Carrigans illfated summer of romance, lust, and indiscretion sets her hurtling through the dark, towards events she never saw coming.Short blurbYouth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. F. Scott FitzgeraldIts 1941, the last summer of American innocence, and eighteenyearold Lillie Carrigan is desperate to love and be loved, to lose her virginity, to experience her lifes great, epic romance. Preoccupied with whiskey and cigarettes, sex and Catholic guilt, Lillie unknowingly sets in motion events leading to death and estrangement from her two best friends.A decade on, Lillie is still haunted by the ghosts of that summer. Did she act solely out of youthful naivety and adolescent jealousy? Or perhaps there were darker forces at work grief, guilt, sexual assault, and the double standards of her strict religious upbringing. Searching for patterns and meaning in the events of that year, and anxious to understand the person she has become, Lillie reflects on the darkness of her tarnished youth and confesses her sins.Long blurbThe Essence of an Hour is the debut novel from Susan Furber. Set in the summer of 1941, the story follows eighteenyearold Lillie Carrigan as she experiences first love with her lifelong friend, Teddy McCalman. Bound together by shared experiences of early loss and grief, Lillie and Teddy spend their time drinking and smoking, clinging to each other and their intense romance. Desperate to lose her virginity,...

Binding: Paperback;276 pages; Publisher: Valley Press Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 420 g; Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 29

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