Every boy deserves a summer girl.
What if you could be seventeen again? Would you want to go back to that one place, that one time, with that one person?
The Summer Girl tells the story of Sean Fitzroy, an emotionally fragile seventeen year-old trying to find a balance between his father’s ambitions and his own yearnings. Caught in an act of self-harm, he is packed off during the summer to stay with his grandfather, a war vet who is considered a pariah within the family.
Stuck in a backwater town without essentials such as Facebook or Text messaging, Sean encounters Lisa, a strong-willed girl who chafes at the restrictiveness of her own family. Together they form a bond that blossoms into a bittersweet romance which helps Sean to confront his grandfather over the ghosts of his past and to challenge his father’s expectations.