What Dies in Summer: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “A beautifully written and deeply engaging study of loss and innocence, suffused with chilling dread. A haunting novel, a captivating debut; I loved it.”

  — S. J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author 

• “A compulsive and provocative novel, Tom Wright manages to combine familiar themes of youth—fear, desire, vulnerability, and chaos—with a story that both unsettles and intrigues the reader. A narrative voice that’s raw and desperate, a story that grips from start to finish, What Dies in Summer is hugely impressive.”

  — John Boyne, New York Times bestselling author

• “A magnificent novel, not so much about loss of innocence as innocence put through the masher. The story pulsates with a deep dread that would be unbearable if the novel weren’t so sweet, funny, sexy, and ultimately moving.”

  — Nick Cave, author of The Death of Bunny Munro

• “An erotic, compelling, and deeply assured debut, midway between Ellroy and Faulkner. It evokes so precisely the beauty and sadness of first love and lost innocence.”

  — Sam Taylor, author of The Amnesiac

• “[A] seductively suspenseful coming-of-age novel…Wright, a practicing psychologist, expertly weaves together a literary tapestry of self-discovery, brutal sadistic violence, custodial battles, and tender, burgeoning sexuality, leaving readers spellbound by a story that delivers on several levels. The author’s impressive, multitiered storytelling talents are on brilliant display in this entrancing, impressive debut.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Even with its hints of Southern gothic and mysticism, this coming-of-age novel keeps its solidly quotidian background. An unusually accomplished and evocative debut, in which what dies is innocence.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A lyrical and realistic study of innocence lost.”

  — Kirkus Reviews