The First Act of SummerFrom the Costa shortlisted, beloved author of All My Mothers, Joanna Glen Is it ever too late to figure out who you were meant to be? As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each others side. But childhood friendships can stretch and warp as you grow up, and in the summer of 1976, the year they

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