Author: Ernst, Linea Maja

Holidays & seasonal interest

Published on 8 May 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
215 x 137 x 21 | 236g

A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends’ loversClever, wry, and incredibly sexy SUSANNAH DICKEYFive friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days.

At least thats what Sylvia had hoped. But when her friends arrive with real jobs, kids and partners, Sylvia is left wondering what happened to the radical ways of living they embraced at university. Worse, Esben and Karen announce their plan to get married at the end of the week, striking a blow to Sylvias simmering, decades-long crush on Esben a crush that her monogamous girlfriend Charlie would definitely not approve of.

Whilst the group swim, sunbathe, cook and flirt their way to midsummer night, desire and anxiety swirl in equal measure. As the wedding day approaches, will they achieve their arcadian dreams or will everything come tumbling down?An evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship Observer’Delicious, and provocative’ ESTHER FREUDSensuous and vivid… A book to devour’ LAURA KAY’Trembles and flashes with hot emotion, confusion and pangs of longing’ AMY KEYA perfume dream of a debut about the wild force of friendship Politiken, largest Danish newspaperLinea Maja Ernst writes about sexual desire so well that it turns her readers on Weekendavisen, popular Danish cultural magazine