Always Summer. The Nocturnals: An endearing and witty novel of love and friendship from the bestselling author of The Best Kind of Beautiful
1997 Sweet, innocent schoolgirl Nina watches him through her arched bedroom windows, and falls in love with the boy next door, who looks as if he’s come from an Evelyn Waugh novel. Her favourite book is Anne of Green Gables . Hunter Bailey, the boy with the shaggy hair, isn’t interested in Nina. Of course, he isn’t. Hunter loves Beatrice. Beatrice, a wild Goth girl, sleeps with Hunter in the boatshed after school, and writes poetry in her troubled home. Her mother is a divorced alcoholic, and she takes care of her stepbrother, Lenny, buying him dinosaur gifts. Beatrice is fundamentally kind. She is especially kind to Harriet and Cosmo. Harriet and Cosmo are two outsiders. Harriet, ethereal, and skinny, is like quicksilver, so quiet and ghostly that you can imagine her slipping through closed doors. Cosmo, the tall, thin, scholarship boy falls for her quickly, and remains in love with her forever. Together, Nina, Hunter, Beatrice, Harriet and Cosmo form The Nocturnals, meeting sec...
