A vibrant story of friendship, first experience and a summer that couldn't last forever
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'...beautiful, bittersweet book, fizzing with music, about a woman determined to keep the dreams of her youth vibrantly alive'
-- Carmen Reid
'...cut-throat world of pop music as its backdrop, it is a compulsive tale of friendship, ambition and failure.' -- Bookseller
'...particular resonance for women who grew up in the 70s and 80s, and captures that era with striking clarity.'
-- Frome & Somerset Standard
'A gloriously energetic and well-observed nostalgia fest.' -- Eve
'A vintage debut.' -- Daily Mirror
'Great popular women's fiction with a bit of bite. Highly entertaining and sophisticated.'
-- Clare Dowling
'It's a compulsive, bittersweet read.' -- Closer
'Poignant, romantic and exciting - a compelling debut from an original new talent' -- Lucie Whitehouse
'Wonderfully truthful about these wild young girls, dizzy and dangerous, exploding with life and music . . .' -- Tessa Hadley
-- Carmen Reid
'...cut-throat world of pop music as its backdrop, it is a compulsive tale of friendship, ambition and failure.' -- Bookseller
'...particular resonance for women who grew up in the 70s and 80s, and captures that era with striking clarity.'
-- Frome & Somerset Standard
'A gloriously energetic and well-observed nostalgia fest.' -- Eve
'A vintage debut.' -- Daily Mirror
'Great popular women's fiction with a bit of bite. Highly entertaining and sophisticated.'
-- Clare Dowling
'It's a compulsive, bittersweet read.' -- Closer
'Poignant, romantic and exciting - a compelling debut from an original new talent' -- Lucie Whitehouse
'Wonderfully truthful about these wild young girls, dizzy and dangerous, exploding with life and music . . .' -- Tessa Hadley
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For us it all began in the summer of ’76, the year the sun scorched the grass the colour of sand and no-one could sprinkle their lawns or take a bath, and the year I could no longer run around without my top on. Meet Lizzie and Kim as they grow from small-town adolescents to women on the hedonistic stage of London in the early eighties. There they join Kim's older sister, Vonnie, an untameable force of nature who is everything they'd like to be. Or is she? Told with an infectious energy, My Vintage Summer is for those who remember dressing up for their first night out, the first song they danced to with their best friend, their first love – and their first life-altering mistake. It's a story of what happens when life doesn't turn out as you had expected.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Ms. J. King
Format:Paperback
I'm always on the look-out for new, talented writers; so I was really pleased to come across Jane Elmor's book "My Vintage Summer". This is a really fabulous book, and if you have even the faintest recollection of the late 1970's/early 1980's (or for that matter even a passing interest in those decades), I defy you not to absolutely love it.
Elmor manages to spark a thousand memories - in the same way that a favourite smell from childhood, or a song from adolescence can - whilst writing a gripping tale of a woman's recollections of her coming of age.
This book is funny and insightful, at times disturbing and heartbreaking. It resonates on so many levels.
This new Author has created fantastic, believable characters, an always engaging plot with a twist that you won't see coming, but that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.
I can't recommend this book enough. It's a really great read, and I'm already looking forward to seeing what Elmor writes next.
Elmor manages to spark a thousand memories - in the same way that a favourite smell from childhood, or a song from adolescence can - whilst writing a gripping tale of a woman's recollections of her coming of age.
This book is funny and insightful, at times disturbing and heartbreaking. It resonates on so many levels.
This new Author has created fantastic, believable characters, an always engaging plot with a twist that you won't see coming, but that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.
I can't recommend this book enough. It's a really great read, and I'm already looking forward to seeing what Elmor writes next.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By P. Morris
Format:Paperback
This did not look like the sort of book I would normally read but it was passed to me and I was hooked from the first sentence. The story is of Beth, a youngish woman who seems to have everything, successful husband, house in Hampstead, etc, etc, but who is gradually revealed as fragile. The vivid flashbacks to early teens and the post-punk music scene in 1980s London which interweave the story are so well observed and illuminate the person she has become.
The story moves fast to its conclusion with a surprising twist and shows how she begins to resolve her insecurities, guilt and sorrow. Gripping - I couldn't put it down!
The story moves fast to its conclusion with a surprising twist and shows how she begins to resolve her insecurities, guilt and sorrow. Gripping - I couldn't put it down!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By C. Fougery
Format:Paperback
You know the sort of book that gets a grip on you , the type you can hardly close and just can't wait to get back to and at the same time don't want to read it too fast because it's too good and you don't want to finish it too quick ?
Well that's the sort of book Jane Elmor just wrote,the sort that sadly makes everything else seem bland.
I'd highly recommend it because it's a rare reading experience, Loved it !!
Well that's the sort of book Jane Elmor just wrote,the sort that sadly makes everything else seem bland.
I'd highly recommend it because it's a rare reading experience, Loved it !!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
For anyone who has had a life-changing friendship
This book appealed to me on so many levels, its set in the 80's (my era) and really captures the excitement of those times when anything really did seem possible even for us... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Avidreader
5.0 out of 5 stars
Didn't want it to end
I have just finished reading My Vintage Summer and agree with all the great reviews that have already been posted. It is simply my favourite book of all time so far! Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2010 by jkennedy
3.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing
I wanted to read this book because it was my era. Unfortunately it was cliche after cliche and I am afraid a bit predictable. Easy enough reading for a holiday though. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by J. Mcfadden
5.0 out of 5 stars
How I loved this book
The best book I have read recently was "Never Let Me Go" but the second best was this by Jane Elmor. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2010 by Mrs. D. P. Arthur
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding, one of the most memorable books you'll read
I read this book last summer and can't wait for the author's next novel, which looks due to publish this July. Read more
Published on 12 May 2009 by Dylan Saunders
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't be put off by the cover!
Neither the title nor the cover photo have anything much to do with the contents of this novel, which I find very irritating as a reader. Read more
Published on 30 April 2009 by EmmyLou
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed
I was really looking forward to this book having bought it on the strength of the reviews. I can see that I'm in the minority here, but I have to admit that I was very... Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2009 by D. Richardson
5.0 out of 5 stars
IF YOU YOU READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS ONE!
I have never written an Amazon review before but i have to wax lyrical about how much i loved My Vintage Summer... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2009 by Ms. L. Holmes
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful read
Jane Elmore has woven a story that leaps effortlessly back and forth in time to show us how Beth becomes a woman and what happens to all of us when we let our dreams slide out of... Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by J. A. Bland
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, but the ending let it down.
Jane Elmor's debut novel begins in 1970s Somerset. It tells the tale of Lizzie, a young girl growing up fast. To begin, she is quiet and doesn't do anything out of the ordinary. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2009 by Lucy Felthouse
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