The Square Root of Summer - Softcover

This bold, soulful debut about loss, the black hole of grief, friendship - and physics - sparkles with wit, warmth and sentences to be savoured. Gottie is an utterly unique character whose journey (and quirks) will lift the heart -- Joanne Owen * Lovereading4kids.co.uk * Sophisticated and believable...An emotional roller-coaster ride worth taking. * School Library Journal * The Square Root of Summer is a title I'm going to be shouting about all summer. It's a standout debut that you can't help but love and I hope that readers love it just as much as I did. -- Lucy Powrie * Queen of Contemporary * The Square Root of Summer is a completely unique and beautiful look at all the different ways our hearts can break. Brilliantly told and full of sweeping prose, swoon-worthy romance and just a touch of physics, this is a book for anyone who has loved and lost a family member, friend or romantic partner. * BookTrust * Love, loss and heartbreak told in a wholly authentic teenage voice * The Bookseller * a buzzy debut * Marie Claire * The must-read of the summer... a new twist on coming-of-age, told with vibrance, intelligence, and beauty * BuzzFeed *

My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel . . . Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason, the boy to whom she lost her heart wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. This summer, still reeling from twin heartbreaks, Gottie is lost and alone and burying herself in equations. Until, after five years absence, Thomas comes home: former boy next door. Former best friend. Former everything. And as life turns upside down again she starts to experience strange blips in time - back to last summer, back to what she should have seen then . . . During one long, hazy summer, Gottie navigates grief, world-stopping kisses and rips in the space-time continuum, as she tries to reconcile her first heartbreak with her last. The Square Root of Summer is an astounding and moving debut from Harriet Reuter Hapgood.