COVER REVEAL
for After Summer
by Hannah Harvey
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Title: After Summer
Author: Hannah Harvey
Release Date: March 1st 2013
Synopsis:
Everything changes for
Arianna when she loses one of her best friends in an accident, suddenly
everything that felt happy and safe, is no longer there, and she can't handle it.
It used to be Ben,
Summer and Arianna, always together, and now it's just Ben and Arianna left,
and she needs to escape.
After Summer's death she
pushes Ben away, cutting of her connection with who she used to be, but she
can't keep running forever, not when the past is always ready to catch her up,
especially since it's more than just Summer's death that she's running from.
Full Synopsis:
After Summer is a young
adult fiction novel, set in a fictional beachside small town in America. It
centres around Arianna, an eighteen year old who has just graduated high
school. All her life Arianna has had a plan in place, but after her best friend
Summer dies, she finds it increasingly difficult to live up to the
expectations.
She has secrets, and
throughout the novels she’s battling between what she wants, and what she
thinks others want for her.
Most of the story is
told in third person, though there are a few journal style letters
incorporated.
After Summer is a book
about discovering who you are, through many trials of growing up. It delves
into loss, love, expectations and a fear of asking for help, even when you know
you need it.
Excerpt:
‘Don’t lecture me Ben I
can’t deal with that tonight.’
‘I expected more from
you.’ He sighs.
‘That’s the whole issue
though,’ Arianna shouts, ‘so many people expected so much from me, by the time
I was about thirteen my whole life had been mapped out, and I felt like if I
changed even one thing, I’d be letting everyone down! I was drowning in
expectations. After Summer died I just couldn’t do it anymore, but that
Arianna, the one I used to be, she was so tied down by all of that, so I had to
become someone new.’
‘And cut everyone out of
your life? I know it’s not just me, you hardly talk to Alex anymore, you’re
withdrawn around your parents, you don’t talk to my parents anymore, all of
your friends were dropped, you don’t talk to Kate, and she says that Fletcher
has been trying to contact you but you won’t talk to him either. I don’t
understand it, you had a great life and sure I know things weren’t perfect, but
you had a support system of friends and family, and you pushed them all away.
What’s so horrible about the life you had planned?’
‘Nothing’s horrible
about it,’
‘Then just explain to me
what you’re doing? Why you’re acting like this prom queen type of girl.’
‘Maybe because I am the
prom queen,’ she shrugs noncommittally, ‘I like who I am now, I have a big
group of friends, I have money, I don’t have to worry about being labelled a
nerd, I actually have a varied social life that consists of more than staying
at home, or going to the arcade. I don’t have to care,’
‘About anything,’ he
finishes for her, ‘that’s the biggest problem, you used to care about things
and people, but now you don’t, or you pretend you don’t.’
‘I didn’t come here to
talk about myself, so if this is the way the nights going then I’ll leave now.’
She snaps back angrily.
About the Author:
Hannah has had a keen
interest in writing for a long time, starting out writing short stories when
she was young. As she got older she started taking her writing more seriously,
and writing longer pieces, but it wasn’t until taking part in and completing NaNoWriMo,
that she decided to pursue her writing.
Her first novel ‘How I
Got Here’ was released in the summer of 2012.
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