The Last Good Summer
In the summer of 1986, Belle McGee is
thirteen. The arrival of Fionn Power at her family home sets in motion a tragic
chain of events.
Now a forty-something investigative
journalist living in Dublin, Belle returns home one night to find Fionn
standing in the hallway before inexplicably vanishing. Unsettled, Belle
immediately phones her sister, who tells her that Fionn was found dead that very
morning.
In her journey to find answers, Belle
exposes corruption and scandal and is forced to stop running from the shameful
truth of 1986.
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Excerpt
The wind picked up, whistling softly against the wing mirror, and a ray of glorious sun finally broke through the veil of cloud. Soon, they came to an elevated plateau. The remote bog stretched as far as the eye could see, planted with managed forests of Lodgepole Pine and Sitka Spruce and scarred with overgrown turf banks. Distant blue-grey peaks floated on the horizon.
‘This place’s freaking me out,’
Dermot said. ‘It’s like we’re on the moon.’
‘Said like a true city boy.’
‘Give me the city any day.’
‘See that turn-off up there, on the
right?’ Belle said. ‘I think that’s what we’re looking for.’
A twisting track covered in light
grey gravel disappeared into an expanse of forest.
‘Aw, shit, this isn’t even a road,’
Dermot said. ‘We could breakdown or anything here.’
‘Keep quiet; you’re making me nervous.’
Belle concentrated on her driving,
following the track for about a mile before she came to the end of the forest.
There, in front of them, hollowed out of a sheer incline was a decommissioned
quarry the size of half a football field.
Belle
brought the car to a stop and got out. Dermot followed. The wall of the quarry
was sandy gravel rock, largely overgrown with moss, grass and willow saplings.
A nearby stream gurgled and splashed on its flow downhill and a curious sparrow
hawk circled overhead, emitting a harsh ‘Kek-kek-kek’ call and coming to rest
on the bough of a nearby tree.
Author
Bio –
J. J. Green is an Irish writer who hails
from Donegal and lives in Derry. She’s had a passion for writing fiction from
childhood and has honed her creative writing skills throughout her adult life.
As a social and environmental activist, she also writes non-fiction in the form
of political essays that mainly focus on economic and environmental injustice.
The Last Good Summer is her debut novel.
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