The Last Happy Summer: An Emotional Family Drama set in Boston during World War Two (The Days of War Series Book 1)

For the Nolan family of East Boston, life on the home front is a different kind of war.June 1941. While the news from Europe remains grim, the future of the Nolan family looks bright.Abby has been accepted to college for the fall, and her twin Thomas is waiting to get on the policeforce. Even their older brother George, who could never keep a job, has finally found steady workas a truck driver.Like every summer, they go to their cottage on nearby Point Shirley, only this year feels different.The Depression has forced many residents to sell, and a lot of their friends have grown up andmoved away. Beyond that, there is uneasiness in the air as the Army builds a gun battery on thebackshore and fighter planes do maneuvers over the harbor.They all try to make the best of it, but it’s an anxious time, and tensions are high. When Thomasbecomes a guard at the shipyard, it puts him at odds with his father, who is a union crane operator.George’s reckless behavior finally catches up to him, causing their mother to drink too much. Abbyseems the only one who will get through the summer unscathed until she finds out the guy she likeswill soon be gone.The family has always had its problems, but the world is in crisis, and people are on edge. And asthe country creeps closer to war, the Nolans struggle to stay together."Cullen delivers a novel that's fast-moving, fresh, and imbued with the best of old-fashioned storytelling, too. Let him take you back in time to that moment when the future of the world and every life in it hung in precarious balance.”― William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Cape Cod and Bound for Gold“Depicting WWII through the prism of blue-collar East Boston, Jonathan Cullen’s THE LAST HAPPY SUMMER tells the story of the Nolan family as they face the first winds of the oncoming conflict. Unique, dramatic, and well-told.”—Mark Sullivan, #1 bestselling author of “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” and “All the Glimmering Stars” Read more