Midsummer Nights

by Jeanette Winterson

First published 2009

Midsummer nights bring new love to a rural English estate. Jeanette, a young artist, arrives to paint the grounds, only to find herself drawn into the tangled web of the Erskine family. As she navigates their web of secrets and desires, Jeanette's own heart becomes entangled with the brooding, magnetic Erskine heir. Under the heat of the summer sun, forbidden passions threaten to upend the family's carefully curated lives. Jeanette must decide whether to follow her head or her heart before the final hours of midsummer slip away.

Genres: romance, 20th-century, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance, family-drama

Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-romance

Setting: England

Period: Midsummer

384 pages · Hardcover · Quercus

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