My Summer of Love

8vo. Pp. [vi], 248, [2]. Pictorial wraps.

Signed by Cross to the title page.

Author's debut novel. Winner of a 2002 Betty Trask Award. A blackly comic, unorthodox teenage romance set in a Yorkshire village amidst a rare heatwave with a mass murderer on the loose. A loosely based film adaptation, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, and starring Emily Blunt and Nathalie Press, won the 2004 BAFTA for Best British Film. "Evocative, ferocious, even visceral... a hand grenade of a novel." –Daily Mail