Title: After Summer
Author: Hannah Harvey
Release Date: March 1st 2013
Synopsis:
Everything
changes for Arianna when she loses one of her best friends in an accident,
suddenly everything that felt happy and safe, is no longer there, and she can't
handle it.
It used to be
Ben, Summer and Arianna, always together, and now it's just Ben and Arianna
left, and she needs to escape.
After Summer's
death she pushes Ben away, cutting of her connection with who she used to be,
but she can't keep running forever, not when the past is always ready to catch
her up, especially since it's more than just Summer's death that she's running
from.
Excerpt:
‘Don’t lecture
me Ben I can’t deal with that tonight.’
‘I expected more
from you.’ He sighs.
‘That’s the
whole issue though,’ Arianna shouts, ‘so many people expected so much from me,
by the time I was about thirteen my whole life had been mapped out, and I felt
like if I changed even one thing, I’d be letting everyone down! I was drowning
in expectations. After Summer died I just couldn’t do it anymore, but that
Arianna, the one I used to be, she was so tied down by all of that, so I had to
become someone new.’
‘And cut
everyone out of your life? I know it’s not just me, you hardly talk to Alex
anymore, you’re withdrawn around your parents, you don’t talk to my parents
anymore, all of your friends were dropped, you don’t talk to Kate, and she says
that Fletcher has been trying to contact you but you won’t talk to him either.
I don’t understand it, you had a great life and sure I know things weren’t
perfect, but you had a support system of friends and family, and you pushed
them all away. What’s so horrible about the life you had planned?’
‘Nothing’s
horrible about it,’
‘Then just
explain to me what you’re doing? Why you’re acting like this prom queen type of
girl.’
‘Maybe because I
am the prom queen,’ she shrugs noncommittally, ‘I like who I am now, I have a
big group of friends, I have money, I don’t have to worry about being labelled
a nerd, I actually have a varied social life that consists of more than staying
at home, or going to the arcade. I don’t have to care,’
‘About
anything,’ he finishes for her, ‘that’s the biggest problem, you used to care
about things and people, but now you don’t, or you pretend you don’t.’
‘I didn’t come
here to talk about myself, so if this is the way the nights going then I’ll
leave now.’ She snaps back angrily.
About the Author:
Hannah has had a
keen interest in writing for a long time, starting out writing short stories
when she was young. As she got older she started taking her writing more
seriously, and writing longer pieces, but it wasn’t until taking part in and
completing NaNoWriMo, that she decided to pursue her writing.
Her first novel
‘How I Got Here’ was released in the summer of 2012.
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