'A fabulous coming-of-age novel that's saturated in '70s nostalgia' - Glamour magazine - 'Ashdown effortlessly transports you back to the seventies - a world of Abba, flares, punk and David Bowie' - Press Association - 'Manages to capture a real sense of Britain's past without resorting to rose-tinted glasses' - Bella magazine - 'Evocative of that hot, dry summer... Book Groups will have a lot to discuss' - New Books magazine

The Isle of Wight, England, 1976. It's the start of one of the hottest summers on record and weeks without rain; the summer of Abba, T-Rex and David Bowie; of the Notting Hill riots and when Big Ben stopped dead. With windows and doors flung open and life increasingly lived outside, secrets become hard to hide. Luke has everything to look forward to in his last few months at home before college on the mainland - there's his 18th birthday coming up, his summer job at the local holiday camp - and even, if he's lucky, the possibility of romance. But when his close-knit island community is gripped by scandal at the height of the heatwave, everything he thought he knew about friendship and family is turned on its head. Celebrating 50 years since that famous heatwave summer, Summer of '76 is a poignant portrayal of a community at boiling point.

[Previously published by Myriad Editions, 2013]

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• Publication Date: May 1, 2026
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• Print Length: 310 Pages
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