I would like to thank you for reading The Darkest Summer.
This story was initially inspired by my own experience of losing a teenage friend who disappeared from my life one summer’s night with her family many years ago. Her story is nothing like this one, thankfully, and we did meet up again years later. One day I was thinking about how I felt when she had gone and used this as the basis for Sera’s story.
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I’m fascinated by people’s pasts and how what they experience changes them as they grow older. I love losing myself in my characters’ emotions and imagining why they react in the ways that they do.
This is the story of two friends, Sera and Dee and how their experiences and the choices they make taint their futures. Sera has had to cope with the loss of her best friend at a vulnerable time in her life and the unexpected death of her husband when she is only in her twenties. She has returned to live in her childhood home with her mother and her little girl and everything in her life is settled until the night of the fire at a neighbour’s farm and her reunion with her two closest childhood friends.
Thank you for joining me for Sera’s story.
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Ella Drummond
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