| ISBN |
9781529084375 (paperback) |
| Name |
Swan, Karen (Writer) author. |
| Title |
The last summer / Karen Swan. |
| Published |
London : Macmillan, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
475 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
'An island full of secrets. An irresistible love story..."-- Front over. |
| Summary |
When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on mainland Scotland compared to the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For eighteen-year-old tomboy Effie Gillies, it's a bittersweet departure. She's the best young climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men. But it is Effie's expansive knowledge of local bird life that leads her to take up a position as curator of Dumfries House's ornithological collection - and back into the arms of Lord Dumfries' son and heir, Sholto. During her last summer on St Kilda, Effie had been Sholto's guide, and their attraction had seemed irresistible. But, in the glamorous polite society of Ayrshire, it is clear they are worlds apart. When a body is discovered on the island, soon after the evacuation, a scandal erupts as Effie is implicated. Sholto knows she's keeping secrets - but are they even her own? |
| Subjects |
Museum curators -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Secrecy -- Fiction |
| Scandals -- Fiction |
| Islands -- Scotland -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Teenagers -- Fiction |
| Upper class -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction |
| Saint Kilda (Scotland) -- Fiction |
| Ayrshire (Scotland) -- Fiction |
| Saint Kilda (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Historical fiction |
| Romance fiction |
| Series |
Wild Isle 01. |
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