The Summer Knows

By Sarah E. Pearsall

Deal Ends: Wed 22nd April

Bestselling debut novel from Sarah E. Pearsall. Kirkus Reviews Book of the Month for November 2025 and one of their Best Books of the Year.Grand Prize Winner of the Story Monster Royal Dragonfly Book Award, 2026.Shortlisted for the Somerset Book Awards, 2026.In Sarah E. Pearsall's debut novel, The Summer Knows, thirty-one-year-old single mother Adrienne Harris is forced to confront the ghosts of her past when she returns to her childhood home in Harbor Point, Florida. Fourteen years after fleeing the town pregnant and heartbroken, Adrienne is pulled back by a family crisis involving her eccentric and ailing grandmother, Elizabeth. As she navigates the complexities of raising her teenage daughter, Kali, in the same town where her own dreams of becoming a chef once crumbled, she must face Quinn Merritt—the "boy next door" from her youth—and the long-held secrets surrounding Kali's paternity. Through an unexpected opportunity to run a local fish market offered by family friend Christopher Crane, Adrienne begins a journey of healing, rediscovering her passion for cooking and finding the strength to forge a new future from the wreckage of the past.