{"product_id":"9781526692153","title":"Our Deadly Summer : The biting and brilliantly funny new novel from the bestselling authors of the Aisling series","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  McLysaght, Emer \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 May 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 164 x 34 | 558g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship … I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red'Packed with accounts of chaotic summer jobs and romantic misadventures, the story is hilarious, tense, and deeply nostalgic' Woman*Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2001. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer’s tans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey’d imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And Other Josh… he’s something else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a miracle only one of them ends up dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDee is pretty sure she didn’t mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It’s finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it’s the novel you didn’t know you needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tender, bittersweet and utterly hilarious. The final twist made me gasp' Daisy Buchanan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58179229417853,"sku":"9781526692153","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781526692153.jpg?v=1778955711","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.com\/products\/9781526692153","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}