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Summer's End

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From one of Ireland’s best-selling novelists, a haunting love story that burns with passion and ultimate loss.

Daniel falls in love with red-haired Helen the moment he sets eyes on her, an impish eleven-year-old running down a dappled avenue. She is his best friend Kieran’s cousin, and it is Daniel’s first visit to Lough Corrlock, an enchanting lake in the Wicklow mountains not far from Dublin.

From this first meeting, Daniel finds himself obsessed. But he cannot understand why Kieran is so dismissive of Helen. In the years to come, the tortured relationship between the friends will lead them, seduced by the promise of great happiness, down a path of passion and aching loss. For what they do not know is that happiness must be either grasped to the heart—or lost forever…

339 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

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October 5, 2025
1,5/5 An sich handelt es sich bei Septembermorgen um einen ganz süßen Roman, aber man merkt einfach, dass er schon einige Jahrzehnte alt ist. Ich mochte die Sprache und den Umgang mit Frauen überhaupt nicht. Eine Frau wird hier auf ein Podest gestellt, alle anderen sind nicht intelligent, hübsch oder was auch immer genug. Das Ende war leider sehr vorhersehbar. Ich meine, eine Affäre, eine Schwangerschaft, die sich erst auf der letzten Seite ergibt, als das Kind auf den Protagonisten Dan zuläuft und eine schlimme tödliche Krankheit, die Helen dahinrafft? Ich denke, in den 90ern war das ein toller Roman, aber heute….
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August 26, 2013
This book seemed to cast a spell over me, I really loved it. I am not sure what it was, it could have been the magic I felt while reading it. I just got lost in every detail, so much so, that it goes down as one of my all time favourite books.
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