Every Summer After: The Version of Me I Haven't Met Yet by Juliet Anders

THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM JULIET ANDERS "A gorgeous, gutting, gloriously alive debut. I read it in one sitting and thought about it for weeks. Juliet Anders writes about loss and recovery and the particular mercy of a place that asks nothing of you with a precision that made me want to press this book into the hands of every woman I know." - Clara Ashford One career to define her. One fall to end it. One summer to find out who she is without it. Valentina Greco gave everything to become extraordinary. Twenty-three years of sacrifice, discipline, and devotion to ballet - the early mornings, the empty plates, the ordinary life traded piece by piece for the extraordinary one. She was a principal dancer with Milan's La Scala. She was precise, devoted, and completely, entirely herself. Until she wasn't. One fall. Half an inch of bad luck. And everything she had built herself into was gone. Two years later her physiotherapist sends her to Vernazza - a sun-drenched harbor town on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera - with three instructions: swim, walk, and stop performing. She arrives with a suitcase, a medical prescription, and the specific hollowness of a person who has lost the organizing principle of their life. Read more