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The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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IN ONE MOMENT THE HORROR BECOMES YOUR LIFE. IT’S NOT JUST IN THE PAPERS ANYMORE, IT’S ON YOUR HANDS. Seven years ago when she was called Anita, Kyle and DEnis were her friends. They hadn’t been at first, perhaps she shouldn’t have pushed it, but Denis, bespectacled in thick NHS frames and Kyle, permanently clad in his anorak – were the only takers. Let out of their south-London comprehensive they spent the long, sticky summer days smoking cigarettes, messing about in the Thames tunnels waiting for something to happen. And then something did. The Dead of Summer is a chilling and brilliant story that asks where evil lurks, and what form it takes. ** From Publishers Weekly From the U.K. comes this promising debut novel narrated by the sole witness and survivor of a set of murders that left three children dead in an abandoned Greenwich, England, mine in 1986. Seven years later, Anita Naidu, now nearly 20, lives in quiet isolation in Bristol. She tells her tale largely in retrospect, with her opening bluster soon giving way to the vulnerability of her 13-year-old self. Having recently lost her mother and moved with her family to a council house in South London back then, Anita's only fr

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Camilla Way
Publisher
Harper : [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780007241729
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, True Crime
Rating
3.59 / 5 (83 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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