19/06/2026
Our new Book of the Week is THE SUMMER BOY by Philippe Besson ⛱️
Set on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France in the summer of 1985, this lush, aching novel follows six teenagers - five boys and one girl - through one final season of sun, freedom, jealousy, desire and discovery before adulthood arrives.
Philippe is drawn to Nicolas, the quiet, melancholy new boy who seems both intensely close and somehow unreachable. But when tragedy strikes and Nicolas disappears, that summer - and the fierce emotions it awakened - will echo for a lifetime.
Beautiful, tender and devastating, The Summer Boy is an unforgettable meditation on youth, longing, innocence lost too soon and the love stories that stay with us forever.
The Summer Boy by Philippe Besson is Queerly’s Book of the Week.