A Song for Summer

Before the Summer disappears, I will just squeeze in Eva Ibbotson's Song for Summer. Known mostly as a children's author, I first enjoyed her work when I read Journey to the River Sea. I spotted this novel in a charity shop, and thought it might be suitable for the school library, but stuck it on the bookshelf until I had time to vet it. Now is that time.

School has been out for the Summer, but now I must resume the day job, so reading will be snatched here and there, where time, energy and commitments allow. 

I have had a really enjoyable Summer of reading and have made a good start at clearing my shelves, but it has been an epic fail in terms of liberating those books out of the house to new homes. This is because although I now feel able to part with these novels, I have done such a good job of selling them to my own family, that some of them now want to read them! However, I suppose it is progress to move a pile of books from one side of the bed to the other, and to share a good read with my loved ones. 

I already know a couple of chapters in that this book won't be making it into the school library, as I feel it is more suitable for secondary aged pupils, having already mentioned female circumcision and skinny dipping teachers. So, I don't know at this stage what I am in for:an adult book, or a young teen read. I'll let you know in due course.....