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Hot,HotSummer

Maggie Allder

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Thefourthbook inTheLonelyIslandseriesaboutlifeonasmall(imaginary)ScottishIslandwherereaders
willencounterthepeopletheyhavereadaboutintheearlierbooks.
Thestory is richinthecultureandfollowshumanstorieswithlivelycharactersanddeals withtheissues of
today’s world, including climate change and the gap between the rich and entitled.

After overcoming so many difficulties, the ordinary people living on En-Somi might think that things would
settle down at last, but life is rarelythatsimple. Wee Elin, whoseemedlikely to be thenextbardandthefirst
evergirlto havethatrole, becomes involvedwiththesonof oneof thewealthyelite. Cananything good come
of this?Andthentheyoungteenagervanishes.Hassheleft theisland? Issheevenstill alive? Andwill Mariebe
able to helpher, if she is found?

Througha hotandstormy summer,thefolk of thelittlevillage of Husspeculateandworry.Onlytheold Bard,
Olaf, becomes convincedthatall will be well. Is it wishfulthinking? Has he made amistake, and is there
anotheryoungonewhowillreplacehimwhenhegoes?

Andwhatis going onattheold airport? Is it floodingbecauseof risingsealevels, or is somethingelse
happening? Who owns that land, and why might anyone want to see it submerged?

Hot, Hot Summer continues the tale of the folk that readers of the Lonely Island series have met before. You will
not be able toput it down.

Maggie Allder grew up in Cambridgeshire and studied in Winchester, Richmond (Virginia) and Reading, and
taughtfor36years.SheisaQuakerandavolunteerforthenon-profit'HumanWrites'whichbefriendsprisoners
on American death rows through letter writing. She has previously published eight other novels.

Comparative title: 9781800462465 Beyond the Water Meadows (March 2021)

Publication Date: 28th November 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781836280231
Themasubjectcategory: FJ– Adventure/actionfiction
paperback 216 x 138 mm 256 pp Portrait Author location: Hampshire

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