Girl Talk - Tapa blanda

Lissy Jablonski was fifteen years old when her father ran off with the red-haired bank teller. That same summer, Lissy and her mother embarked on an adventure of their own - a return to her mother's home town and its cast of extraordinary characters. Their comforting 'girl talks' suddenly began to yield startling secrets, quickly turning those months into what Lissy's mother referred to afterwards as 'the summer that never happened'. Now, thirty-year-old Lissy finds herself looking back. The arrival of an old boyfriend from that same summer triggers a realisation in her that pleasures and sorrows can come from the most unreasonable realities of the heart - and that from the past can come a way to face the future.

Julianna Baggott has published dozens of short stories and poems, and in 1988 she won the Eyster prize for short fiction. She is the author of the poetry collection, This Country of Mothers, and her second novel The Miss America Family, will be published by William Heinemann in August 2002. She lines in Newark, Delaware, with her husband and three young children.