Two marginalised boys from different cultures meet and share five summers, sometimes together, sometimes apart. As they grow into men, life pulls them in different directions. But some feelings don't fade; some people don't let go.
Teenager Harry Dixon is counting down the days until he can escape his miserable high school, feeling isolated and stuck in a life that doesn’t quite fit – until his enigmatic Parisian friend Xavier arrives for the summer.
Charming, irreverent, and impossible to ignore, Xavier turns Harry’s world upside down. What begins as friendship quickly deepens into something neither of them fully understands but neither can forget.
As the years pass, life pulls them in different directions. Other relationships, expectations, and the realities of growing up test the connection between them, stretching it across time, distance, and missed chances. Still, some feelings don’t fade. Some people don’t let go.
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Two marginalised boys from different cultures meet and share five summers, sometimes together, sometimes apart. As they grow into men, life pulls them in different directions. But some feelings don't fade; some people don't let go.
Teenager Harry Dixon is counting down the days until he can escape his miserable high school, feeling isolated and stuck in a life that doesn’t quite fit – until his enigmatic Parisian friend Xavier arrives for the summer.
Charming, irreverent, and impossible to ignore, Xavier turns Harry’s world upside down. What begins as friendship quickly deepens into something neither of them fully understands but neither can forget.
As the years pass, life pulls them in different directions. Other relationships, expectations, and the realities of growing up test the connection between them, stretching it across time, distance, and missed chances. Still, some feelings don’t fade. Some people don’t let go.
I grew up on a small, traditionally run, family farm out on the Lincolnshire Marsh. My Grandad still spoke N. Lincolnshire dialect and had a wonderful stock of orally transmitted stories which I loved listening to by the front kitchen fire in my grandparents' farmhouse. I loved music theatre growing up and made quite a large number of music theatre pieces. I continue to write quite a lot of songs, and these often form the starting point of stories and sometimes feature in them. For me writing and reading are forms of performance and I see my novels and short stories as performance pieces which come to life when they are read. I love writing which is part of Queer Ecology, whether theoretical pieces or poetry and novels which 'queer nature'. A couple of my favourites are 'Kiss of the Fur Queen' by Tomson Highway and 'Crime Against Nature' by Minnie Bruce Pratt. I write stories which explore local cultures (especially my own lost local small farming culture out on the Lincolnshire Marsh), queer romance, and the whole more than human world through a queer lens.
Official Site: https://andrewcheffingsbooks.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harry-Xavier-Five-Summers-Fall-ebook/dp/B0GNSGNMB3
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