Our Deadly Summer: The bitingly funny No. 1 Irish Times bestseller
May 2026 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, 2026
'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author
'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author
'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship ... I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red
'Packed with accounts of chaotic summer jobs and romantic misadventures, the story is hilarious, tense, and deeply nostalgic' Woman
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Laura and Dee haven't spoken since the day they buried a body together.
2001. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer's tans.
They'd imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim.
Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And Other Josh... he's something else entirely.
It's a miracle only one of them ends up dead.
Dee is pretty sure she didn't mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked.
Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It's finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back.
A hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it's the novel you didn't know you needed.
'Tender, bittersweet and utterly hilarious. The final twist made me gasp' Daisy Buchanan
Our Deadly Summer launched at No. 1 on the Irish Times bestseller chart w/e 23/05/26.
'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author
'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author
'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship ... I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red
'Packed with accounts of chaotic summer jobs and romantic misadventures, the story is hilarious, tense, and deeply nostalgic' Woman
*
Laura and Dee haven't spoken since the day they buried a body together.
2001. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer's tans.
They'd imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim.
Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And Other Josh... he's something else entirely.
It's a miracle only one of them ends up dead.
Dee is pretty sure she didn't mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked.
Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It's finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back.
A hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it's the novel you didn't know you needed.
'Tender, bittersweet and utterly hilarious. The final twist made me gasp' Daisy Buchanan
Our Deadly Summer launched at No. 1 on the Irish Times bestseller chart w/e 23/05/26.
Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, 2026
'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author
'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author
'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questio...
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About the author
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are co-authors of the Aisling series. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland and its sequel, The Importance of Being Aisling, won the award for best popular fiction book at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. The third book in the series, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, won the same award the following year and the fourth book in the series, Aisling and the City, won again in 2021. The final book in the series, Aisling Ever After, was published in Autumn 2023 and was an instant number one bestseller. Combined, the Aisling books have sold more than 400,000 copies to date.
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are co-authors of the Aisling series. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland and its sequel, The Importance of Being Aisling, won the award for best popular fiction book at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. The third book i...
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