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Casino Summer: A coming-of-age novel
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RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781764395007
Publisher: Sarah Martin Books
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Casino Summer is a richly atmospheric literary novel set in a regional casino in the Ardeche region in France in 1972. Jemma, a young Australian woman finds herself entangled in a world far more complex than she has ever experienced.
When she arrives in Beaulieu des Eaux with her French boyfriend, drummer Jean-Luc, she expects a carefree summer of music, adventure, and time to decide on her future. Instead, she steps into the shadowy world of a casino owned by the charismatic and controlling Monsieur Bernard. His ambitions drive every decision, and his wife and daughters - elegant Eliane and withdrawn Sylvie - are pawns in the machinery of his success, their lives shaped by expectations they did not choose.
With Jean-Luc playing nightly as a member of the casino band, Jemma becomes both insider and outsider, captivated by the glamour of the casino's public face, the terrace cafe, the dance hall and the gaming hall, the nearby river glinting in the heat - but soon becomes unsettled by what lies behind it: the silences, the unspoken bargains that bind the Bernard family together.
Over one transformative summer, Jemma must navigate love, loyalty and the subtle pressures of an unfamiliar world. Her coming-of-age unfolds against a backdrop of cross cultural and generational tensions, class divides, and Jean-Luc's growing misery at the staleness of the music he plays each night, and the intoxicating pull of a foreign country that feels both enchanting and treacherous.
With its evocative sense of place, emotional depth, and finely drawn characters, Casino Summer explores the power dynamics that shape families, the risks of surrendering to someone else's world, and the moment a young woman begins to understand who she is, and what she does not want to become.
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