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Young Adult Contemporary
Date Published: 1/18/12
As the sun prepares to rise on the last day of summer, three friends find themselves totally
unprepared for the events that are about to take place around them. For Tanya it is a chance to
find peace three years after losing her parents in an auto accident. Deciding she simply can’t
continue blaming God for her loss, she places a heartfelt poem in a bottle and throws it into
the sea on the eve of her birthday, granting her birthday wish to whoever finds it.
Early the next morning, her best friend Anton and his buddy Johnno find the bottle washed
up on the shore and set about putting it to the test. When Johnno falls for the new waitress at
the cafĂ© where Tanya works, it stirs up feelings of jealousy in Tanya. Surely Johnno couldn’t
be the man that God had in mind for her? Suddenly, strange wishes are beginning to come
true, but is it all a coincidence? Or is God about to change people’s lives for the better?
Welcome to Kings Beach, where the forecast for the last day of summer promises to be hot,
hot, hot, with a definite change in the air.
unprepared for the events that are about to take place around them. For Tanya it is a chance to
find peace three years after losing her parents in an auto accident. Deciding she simply can’t
continue blaming God for her loss, she places a heartfelt poem in a bottle and throws it into
the sea on the eve of her birthday, granting her birthday wish to whoever finds it.
Early the next morning, her best friend Anton and his buddy Johnno find the bottle washed
up on the shore and set about putting it to the test. When Johnno falls for the new waitress at
the cafĂ© where Tanya works, it stirs up feelings of jealousy in Tanya. Surely Johnno couldn’t
be the man that God had in mind for her? Suddenly, strange wishes are beginning to come
true, but is it all a coincidence? Or is God about to change people’s lives for the better?
Welcome to Kings Beach, where the forecast for the last day of summer promises to be hot,
hot, hot, with a definite change in the air.
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EXCERPT
Johnno grabbed
the bottle and turned it upside down. The letter caught in its neck. Then with
a bit of prying using his car key, he was able to gently pull the letter from
the bottle and let it fall onto the table. It lay there wrapped only with a
small hair ribbon tied in the centre. Anton reached across to untie it as
Johnno stood the now empty bottle back in the centre of the table.
“Well here
goes.” Anton said as he uncurled the two pages and held them up for his friend
to see.
The pages were
cream in color, decorated with a border of flowers entwined along the edge of
each page in black ink. At the top of the first page before the letter began,
was a small turquoise colored love heart someone had painted, again in what
appeared to be nail polish. It left a slightly oily stain around the edges
which only added to the letter’s charm. Around them, the air filled with the
scent of women’s perfume that wafted up from the page. With their curiosity now
firmly aroused, Anton and Johnno huddled in closely and began to read.
To whoever
finds this,
If I’ve washed
up on your distant shore,
From a land far
over the sea.
Please tread
carefully on the morning sand,
And know you’ve
set me free.
Wrapped in my
mother’s ribbon,
This letter is
but a token.
A plead to let
her see the world,
From a young
heart torn and broken.
A turquoise
heart that was my Aunt,
Left footprints
in the sand.
Her magic just
a memory,
You now hold in
your hand.
So I light a
candle for my Dad,
But this gift I
give to you.
He always told
me to make a wish,
So today may
all yours come true.
It’s time to
live, to find true love.
Before the
winter’s scorn.
Somewhere it’s
always summer,
May my true
love’s arms be warm.
P.S. Please
return me to the sea at sunset.
Phillip Overton’s writing has been compared to none other than Nicholas Sparks (http://
www.readerviews.com/ReviewOvertonAWalkBeforeSunrise.html), and his latest novel Last
Wish of Summer offers readers the perfect book to spend a summer’s day reading at the
beach. In a book that reminds us to be careful what we wish for, it manages to weave the
wholesome, virginal qualities of the main character Tanya with her band of misfit friends
in their pursuit of being able to reason why a washed up message in a bottle is somehow
granting their every wish come true. Often in a manner that is both coincidental and strangely
bizarre.
Just as a movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel will appeal to people of all ages, so too
will this story that follows the adventures of a group of twenty-something’s on the last day
of summer. The book not only manages to cut through any pre-conceived ideas we hold on
morals, body-image and social status, but delights in helping us discover what may already be
right under our nose to begin with.
Phillip Overton’s writing has been compared to none other than Nicholas Sparks (http://
www.readerviews.com/ReviewOvertonAWalkBeforeSunrise.html), and his latest novel Last
Wish of Summer offers readers the perfect book to spend a summer’s day reading at the
beach. In a book that reminds us to be careful what we wish for, it manages to weave the
wholesome, virginal qualities of the main character Tanya with her band of misfit friends
in their pursuit of being able to reason why a washed up message in a bottle is somehow
granting their every wish come true. Often in a manner that is both coincidental and strangely
bizarre.
Just as a movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel will appeal to people of all ages, so too
will this story that follows the adventures of a group of twenty-something’s on the last day
of summer. The book not only manages to cut through any pre-conceived ideas we hold on
morals, body-image and social status, but delights in helping us discover what may already be
right under our nose to begin with.
http://sbpra.com/phillipoverton/
Twitter: @phillipoverton
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1 Comments
Thanks Cami for hosting my Last Wish of Summer book tour on My Reading addiction, and good luck readers with the giveaway.
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