Palm Meridian
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
'A masterful love story' Nicola Dinan
'Very special ' Laura Kay
'Wildly entertaining, lovingly written' Jess Kidd
'Rib-achingly funny' Curtis Garner
'Delicious' Lily Lindon
'A firecracker of a book' Emma Morgan
'Achingly funny and utterly heartrending' Sara Nisha Adams
It's 2067 at Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, Florida, and the last day of Hannah's life. Tomorrow, as the sun burns the dew off the lawns, she'll close her eyes for the very last time.
But she won't be going quietly. Tonight, Hannah's throwing an end-of-life party: the drinks are on ice, and the palm trees are strung with lights beneath technicolour skies. And though Hannah has less than twenty-four hours left, she's holding out for one last, impossible thing...
Amongst the guest list is Hannah's long-lost love Sophie - the woman who Hannah can't forget, even after forty years. Hannah has to give her greatest love one last try.
Soon, the party is in full swing. Hannah waits nervously, unaware that before her last ever dawn breaks, a devastating secret will come to light. If Sophie shows, how can Hannah say goodbye all over again? And is there enough time to fix the past?
Brimming with heart, and just as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Palm Meridian is a one-of-a kind novel that will stay with you forever. Grace & Frankie meets The Notebook, for fans of Malibu Rising, this bittersweet novel affirms that life is what we choose to make of it, and any story can be a love story, if you let it.
'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and hopeful, Palm Meridian is the modern lesbian novel I've been waiting for' Anna Bailey, author of Tall Bones
'A brilliantly warm and nostalgic journey through the highs and lows of surviving life's drama' Justin Myers, author of The Last Romeo
'A riotous novel marking the arrival of an exciting new voice in fiction' Steven Rowley, author of The Guncle
'A stunningly original, heartbreaking yet brilliantly funny story. One of my favourite novels of the year by far, this is absolutely destined for the big screen!' Laura Price, author of Single Bald Female
'Fresh, funny and full of hope. Grace writes with such originality and heart, I know readers are going to fall in love with Hannah and her joyfully life-affirming end-of-life party' Freya Sampson, author of The Last Library
'What a beautiful book. Gorgeously written, you can feel the warmth of the sunset of Hannah's life on every page. So funny and so sad. Compulsory queer reading this summer!' Chloe Michelle Howarth, author of Sunburn
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Flahive debuts with a heart-wrenching but uplifting near-future story about a septuagenarian who intends to go out with a bang after learning she has terminal cancer. In 2067, Hannah plans a massive party at the Palm Meridian, a Florida retirement community for gay, bisexual, and transgender women and their friends. In addition to her neighbors, she invites her childhood friend and business partner Luke, as well as Sophia, the love of her life. When Luke arrives, he acts sheepish, and his strange behavior remains a mystery until near the end, while Sophie, who never confirmed her attendance, keeps the others guessing as to whether she'll show up. In flashbacks to Hannah's 20s in 2020s Canada, Flahive teases out the reasons for Luke's strangeness and Sophie's absence, which are finally revealed to Hannah mere hours before she plans to die by euthanasia. Flahive is unflinching in her depiction of a future ravaged by climate change, where former towns are overgrown and flooded, and Disney World has fallen into ruin. It's a stirring tale of living and dying on one's own terms.
