Nymph by Montrone, Sofia

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Author: Montrone, SofiaModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 4 June 2026 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 256 pages220 x 141 | 278g
A STYLIST BEST QUEER FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026Immersive, queer and atmospheric. The perfect summer read EMILY AUSTINMontrone perfectly captures the Homeric, mythic power of childhoods edge, the paradox of days that feel like they last forever, while somehow always being much too short. Every sentence is a heartbreak HILARY LEICHTER A dazzling debut that captures the dizzying intensity of first love ADAM WILSONTranscendent HEIDI JULAVITSThis shimmering gem of a novel invites you to re-experience that gut-punch feeling of youthful summer romance. Suffused with moody sunsets, lush summer heat and confused yearning ANELISE CHENLuscious and transporting GRACE FLAHIVETen-year-old Leo spends her mornings tidying the rooms of her nonnas time-worn Italian hotel, quietly accumulating the junk and treasures left behind by guests a pearl earring, a lock of hair. Her nights are suffused with her fathers liquor-spun tales of his childhood, mingled with stories of Greek heroes of old.Years later, over another hot, endless Italian summer, the hotel is one of the only things in Leos life that has remained constant. An accident has knocked her family sideways; her brother Max is distant and Nonna has grown frail. But then she meets Dolores, an American girl who sets something alight in Leo that she didnt know existed.Heat-soaked, sensual and steeped in an exquisite longing, Nymph traverses the extraordinary pains, soaring pleasures and many metamorphoses it takes to finally grow up.