{"product_id":"summer-heat-by-defne-suman","title":"Summer Heat by Defne Suman","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Vivid, evocative and tender.' Elif Shafak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘In our family, secrets were buried deep like treasure, never to be spoken of...’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she’s scared.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe can tell from her parents’ urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul is changing. So when the family relocate to a quaint village in the south, Melike is hopeful life might get better. And for a while, it does.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut then her beloved father disappears... 2003. Nearly three decades have passed, and Melike has done her best to move on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut despite her successful career as an art historian and a husband who adores her, she has always felt a lingering discontent. When she meets mysterious – and extremely handsome – stranger Petro, Melike feels her fortunes changing. But Petro isn’t who he says he is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd when Melike uncovers his true identity, she also lays bare a lifetime of hidden pasts... With a backdrop of the Turkish army’s occupation of Cyprus in 1974, Summer Heat explores family secrets, tangled identities and one woman’s place in her country’s devastating history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 11 Apr 2013, Bloomsbury \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035902323\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 432 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57383239516542,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781035902323.jpg?v=1778244338","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/summer-heat-by-defne-suman","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}