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Title:
No Season but the Summer
Written by:
Matilda Leyser 
Read by:
Matilda Leyser 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
10 
Duration:
12 hours 19 minutes 
Published:
February 28 2024 
Available Date:
February 28 2024 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781038665775 
Genres:
Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Fables & Fairytales; Fantasy Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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No Season but the Summer takes a classic myth and turns it on its head, asking what happens when our oldest stories fail us, when all the rules change.

Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for 9000 years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control. While Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughter’s husband, who wants to drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors. Used to blinking up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops with activist Snow, Persephone realises that there are choices she can make for herself. But what will these choices mean for her mother, her husband and for the new shoots of life inside her?

'In No Season but the Summer, our world is still dying, but it is putting up a hell of a fight as it does so, reminding us that we can fight too, and that fighting for our lives might start with listening to the earth.'
Stella Duffy, author of Theodora

'What a wonderful writer. Matilda Leyser’s work is precise, poetic, hard-edged, rhythmical. It seethes with life, and feels both ancient and brand new.'
David Almond, author of Skellig

'No Season but the Summer is a memorable debut.’'
Erica Wagner, author of Mary and Mr Eliot