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|summary=Set in the land of the midnight sun, this is a haunting recollection of a young girls's experiences of a summer of tragedy. It's compellingly told, although the narrative device used puts a slightly unsatisfying level of distance between events.

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''A Summer of Drowning'' is a book in which for much of the time not a lot happens - but always spookily. Set on the Norwegian island of Kvaløya in the Arctic Circle, the story is narrated by Liv who is now 28 but who recalls events of a summer when she was 18. Liv resides with her artist mother in, if not isolation, then certainly seclusion. The book makes much of the midsummer madness that 24 hour daylight induces and in that respect it is wholly successful. It aims for a dream-like and timeless quality which it largely achieves.