First Summer Category_DIARY / PLANNERS as their daring relationship threatens

as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them

With time ticking

and even family photos

This is a sensory wonder that both suffocates and enraptures

and anyone who loves the craft behind dessert and bread

First Summer Category_DIARY / PLANNERS as their daring relationship threatensFirst Summer by Ekin Oklap is a tender coming of age novel that traces the electric, unsettling moment when friendship starts to tip into first love. Set over a slow, sun soaked summer, it follows a teenage narrator as she notices Clara, the new girl across the street, and feels a jolt of recognitionloneliness meeting loneliness, then gradually softening into warmth, humour and trust. As the girls spend long afternoons reading and talking side by side