Who was your favorite character to create? Writing the book let me escape back into that time. I had recently reread my teenage journals and was feeling very nostalgic for the summers of my youth. My parents sold the house about ten years ago, but in 2020, my husband, son, and I spent July and August at a cottage on a lake nearby. I spent my summers much like Percy and Sam - swimming, reading, and when I got older, working in the evenings at my parents’ restaurant. Our house was down a dirt road in the middle of the bush and on the water. What inspired you to create a story told mostly during summertime? This novel is told over the course of six summers. The whole time you’re trying to figure out what it is that caused them to split apart and whether their love can survive their past mistakes. The book is told in alternating now and then timelines, going between six summers in the past, where we see them meet, become best friends, and fall in love, and one tumultuous weekend in the present when Percy receives a phone call that has her racing back to Barry’s Bay, and to Sam. They quickly form a tight bond, but as adults, they haven’t spoken in more than a decade. Of course! Every Summer After is a sweeping love story about Percy and Sam, who meet as thirteen-year-olds when Percy’s family buys the cottage next door to Sam’s house on a lake in Barry’s Bay. Carley! Welcome! You debut book, Every Summer After is officially a New York Times bestselling novel.
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