{"product_id":"june-baby-shannon-garvey-9781035451005","title":"June Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this moving debut novel set over one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss and and a startling secret. A transporting summer read for fans of Into the Blue, Lily King, The Paper Palace, Elin Hilderbrand and The Wedding People. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'A novel about grief and first love...tender and precise' Coco Mellors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The book of the summer. It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting' Elin Hilderband\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sun-drenched... a glittering debut' Jenny Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A love letter to summer romance' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first summer Ruth arrives on Block Island, she is seventeen, her mother is dead and she has nothing in her pocket but a receipt scrawled with the name Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, takes Ruth in, and the island becomes the refuge she returns to each June. It is a place to grieve, to write - and to fall in love for the first time, with Diana's nephew Charlie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, ten years on, Diana dies suddenly and Ruth's world turns upside down once more. She goes to Block Island to admit her feelings to Charlie - but he has his own revelation to share. And when Ruth receives a box left to her in Diana's will, its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSalt-kissed and moving, June Baby is a tender slow burn about love, grief and the crossroads of life, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and fading sunsets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon Garvey","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67603147587827,"sku":"9781035451005","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781035451005.jpg?v=1790711994","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/june-baby-shannon-garvey-9781035451005","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}