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The Summer of Songbirds
Kristy Woodson Harvey
368 pages | Published by Gallery Books
The Set Up: Camp Holly Springs means the world to its owner June, her niece Daphne, and Daphne’s two best friends Lanier and Mary Stuart. But after a rough couple of years, the camp is struggling to survive. Amidst their own personal struggles, all four women are now determined to save the camp that brought them all together.
TW: There’s a lot of talk of substance abuse, addiction, and recovery in this one.
I so desperately wish that I had been a summer camp kid. Books like this that are full of nostalgia only make it worse!! Anyone want to find an adult summer camp and just run away every summer?
I really enjoyed this book - it did take me a minute to keep the different women and how they related to each other straight. Even though the book is split in three ways, I felt like Daphne was solidly our main character. I was glad that instead of Mary Stuart’s POV (sorry girl) we got to hear from June. She brought a different perspective to the situation.
A solid summery read, I wish I had picked this up earlier in the year. It was comforting and wrapped up with a solid, satisfying ending that I definitely predicted but was still glad to see anyway.
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