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The Last Summer of Wesley Kensington
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For fans of They Both Die at the End, The Fault in Our Stars, and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
The summer after graduation was supposed to be unforgettable.
Jaime, Wesley, Chloé, and Seb have one last chance to be eighteen before life pulls them in different directions. Their days are filled with road trips, rooftop conversations, parties, and the kind of friendships that feel impossible to lose.
Then Wesley reveals a secret that changes everything.
As the summer slips away, Jaime begins to realise the person he's always loved may be carrying burdens no one else can see. And by the time the truth comes to light, forever will mean something very different than any of them imagined.
The Last Summer of Wesley Kensington is an emotional contemporary novel about friendship, first love, grief, and finding light even when time is running out.
BOOK BACKWesley has always known how to make ordinary nights feel unforgettable.
So when he tells his three closest friends that his family is moving away at the end of summer, they make a decision: if this is their last season together, they are going to make it impossible to forget.
They create a list.
- Get drunk on the football field.
- Swim somewhere they shouldn't.
- Drive until the road runs out.
- Steal something useless.
- See the sunrise without sleeping.
- Kiss someone you shouldn't.
- Tell someone the truth.
- Fall in love.
- Leave proof that they were here.
What begins as one last reckless summer quickly becomes something bigger: a collection of stolen nights, blurred photographs, shared cigarettes, old memories, new feelings, and the quiet realisation that growing up sometimes means losing the version of life you thought would last forever.
But Wesley has always been good at making everything look easy.
And as August draws closer, the four of them begin to understand that some goodbyes start long before anyone is ready to say them.
The Last Summer of Wesley Kensington is a tender, bittersweet coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, memory, and the people who become part of us so completely that even leaving cannot make them disappear.
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