June Baby

A Novel

De: Shannon Garvey

Some summers never leave you.

In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward.

“The book of the summer! It has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting.”—Elin Hilderbrand

At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her father, unable to handle his grieving daughter, shipped her off to Block Island with nothing but a name scribbled on the back of a receipt: Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, took Ruth in for the summer, and Block Island became Ruth’s refuge, a place of beauty and creativity, a place where she could nurture her dreams of being a writer, a place where she could fall in love for the first time—with Diana’s nephew, Charlie.

Now, at twenty-seven, Ruth has spent the last ten summers living and working among the lucky few who get to vacation in this wealthy beach town, and the rest of the year just scraping by, yearning to return to the place where she feels safe and unburdened. But then Ruth’s world is upended by tragedy again. Desperate for an anchor, she reaches for the person she’s been pining for since she met him—Charlie—who has his own startling revelation to share. And when another surprise comes in the form of a box left to Ruth by Diana, its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her. Torn between what to believe about her past, and what her future might hold, Ruth is faced with another choice: does she dare to rewrite her story entirely?

Both a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a tender exploration of love and grief, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and seaside sunsets, June Baby shows us what it might look like to embrace a life shaped not by loss, but by possibility.

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“What a treat to get lost in the sharply drawn, salt-washed world of June Baby. This novel about grief, first love, and the slow, uncertain work of growing up is tender and precise, and Garvey’s prose reveals a writer of real emotional intelligence and depth.”—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters

“A sun-drenched novel of love, tragedy, beauty, and creativity, June Baby is a glittering debut novel from an exciting new voice.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

“The kind of gorgeous book that carries us back to the sharp sweet days of longing and late sunlight, summer days that are always more than themselves, where we grow to become the people we are now. . . . Absorbing and moving, I loved every second of my time with Ruth on the island—a world of salt, sorrow, and immeasurable love.”—Sarah Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Postmistress

“June Baby has everything I want in a beach read: juicy romance, explosive family secrets, and a delicious island setting. Shannon Garvey has delivered the book of the summer!”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Five-Star Weekend

“Amid white sand dunes and star-kissed nights, this tender debut aches with longing as it explores how the idea of love can sometimes outlast love itself. . . . A layered, hopeful meditation on grief, second chances, and the home found within each of us.”—Emma Brodie, author of Songs in Ursa Major

“From its opening pages, June Baby transports readers to the wind-swept dunes and watercolor skies of Block Island—and the quiet, impossible decisions we face in our twenties. Through an unflinching lens, Shannon Garvey explores the choices we do and don’t get to make as we navigate loss and opportunity with gorgeous prose. This shimmering debut about the agony and thrill of growing up is a dazzler.”—Beck Dorey-Stein, author of Spectacular Things

“A real find . . . Shannon Garvey is a writer of depth and vivid detail, and I was swept away by her story of Ruth’s breathless summer of decision. This absorbing novel is an honest examination of the choices—of love, friendship, and vocation—a young woman faces, that feels fresh and alive.”—Judy Blundell, author of The High Season