Every Summer After

By: Carley Fortune

Narrated by: AJ Bridel

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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers during their youth, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm nights working in his family’s restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And when Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until she can confront the decisions she made, they’ll never know whether their love is bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years in the past and one weekend in the present, Every Summer After is a gorgeously romantic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Get a glimpse into Charlie's story in a sneak peek from Carley Fortune's fourth novel, One Golden Summer.

©2022 Carley Fortune (P)2022 Viking

Critic reviews

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A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022

One of:
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CBC Books' "Summer reading list: 45 cool books to read while the weather heats up"
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USA TODAY's "May's top rom-com reads"
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Yahoo Canada’s “10 books that have reached cult status on TikTok”
Goodreads’s “Best debut novels of 2022”
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Daily Hive’s “22 Best Books of 2022”
Collider’s “10 Best Trending Books On BookTok That Should Be Adapted Into Movies”
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“Any book that begins with a cocktail-and-heartbreak-induced haircut has a strong likelihood of being just the book for me, but Every Summer After outshone even my highest hopes. Fortune’s wit is sharp, her prose is gorgeous, and her characters thrum with the rare kind of life and breath we readers are constantly on the lookout for. This is a radiant debut that packs an emotional wallop.”
—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read

“A sweet story about second chances, and how the future we imagine for ourselves is never quite what it turns out to be.”
—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Wish You Were Here

Good Summer Read

The story and the characters were sweet and cute and had a good amount of tension and spice. A few events that I wish had more weight written into it, dynamics that I wish had more impact. Overall, a good summer read.

lovely read

sweet, thoughtful, and feels like home. love it's based out of Ontario, and the characters are so incredibly sweet.