Every Summer After
Carley Fortune, 2022
A sharp, warm second-chance romance about the summers that make us and the one person we never quite leave behind.
Carley Fortune
Carley Fortune writes about summer places that hold whole histories: a lake, a dock, a person you keep returning to. Her novels move between past and present, letting you feel how much a few warm months can shape the years after. Start with Every Summer After for the second-chance story, or One Golden Summer for the photographer and the grandmother who gave her a camera.
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Carley Fortune was an award-winning journalist and editor before writing fiction; Every Summer After became a bestseller and a BookTok favorite.
How a wine list can expose a person's entire character.
It’s not that I’m still in love with my ex; I’m not. I never was. Sebastian is kind of a snob. An up-and-coming corporate lawyer, he wouldn’t have lasted one hour at Chantal’s party without scoffing at her choice of signature drink and referencing some pretentious article he read in the New York Times that declared Aperol spritzes “over.” Instead, he would pretend to study the wine list, ask the bartender annoying questions about terroir and acidity and, regardless of the answers, go with a glass of the most expensive red. It’s not that he has exceptional taste or knows a lot about wine; he doesn’t. He just buys expensive stuff to give the impression of being discerning. Books by Carley Fortune
One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, 2025
A drained photographer, the grandmother who gave her a camera, and the lake summer that started everything.
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