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Carly Fortune is the author of This Summer Will Be Different.

She also, by the way, has the cover blurb on Blank, my novel.

Carly is the number one New York Times and number one Globe and Mail bestselling author

of Meet Me at the Lake and every summer after, and now this summer will be different. Her books

have sold more than one million copies worldwide. Carly is an award-winning journalist and

worked as an editor at some of Canada's top

publications, including the Globe and Mail, Chattelaine, Toronto Life, and the much-beloved, now-defunct

weekly paper The Grid. She was most recently the executive editor of Refinery 29 Canada.

Carly holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. She spent her

young life in the suburbs of

Sydney, Australia, and in Barry's Bay, a tiny lakeside town in rural Ontario, which was the setting

for every summer after. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons and is currently working

on her fourth book. Welcome, Carly. Thanks for coming back on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books

to discuss this summer will be different. A novel. Congratulations.

Thank you and thank you for having me. Of course, of course. Okay, tell listeners what your latest book is about, please.

Sure, yeah. So it is about Lucy, who is from Toronto and she travels to Prince Edward Island on vacation for the first time

where she meets a very charming oyster shucker, Felix, and they spend quite a memorable

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