My Summer of Love
by Helen Crossliterary work· published 2001
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My Summer Of Love is a novel by Helen Cross, first published in Great Britain in 2001, winning a Betty Trask Award in the subsequent year. Set in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Whitehorse, and the surrounding area, it tells the story of the intense relationship that develops between Tamsin and Mona, two 15-year-old girls of different social classes. Mona narrates as a recollection for the entire novel, though it is not clear how much time has passed since the events she is describing. In the first chapter, she brings the narrative back to the present with cryptic references to the end of the tale, but after this the narrative is uninterrupted and stays in the past tense.
Adaptations (1)
My Summer of Love was adapted into a 2004 film.
My Summer of Love2004 · film · 86 min · dir. Pawel Pawlikowski · IMDb ↗In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
