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Page Tune is the author of Seven Summers, a novel. Page grew up between England, Australia,

and America and has been

writing emotional love stories since 2007. She has published 15 novels, a three-part spinoff

series for young adults, and a collection of short stories. Her books have sold nearly

two million copies worldwide. She lives in Cambridgeshire, England, with her husband and

their two children. Welcome, Paige. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss

Seven Summers. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. So tell listeners where the

idea for this book came from and what it's about, please. Hey, well, I've got a copy here too also.

And as you can see, I have my stack in the background.

So Seven Summers, I came up with this idea.

Initially, it was going to be an idea based around sand art and stuff.

And I remember pitching the idea to my editors.

And my American editor really loved the sound of it.

And I hadn't told my UK editor the same idea. I told them a different one.

And somewhere, you know, like basically the idea that I ended up pitching wasn't the one

that this was more my, my American editor's favourite one. And in the time that it took for us

to all talk together about which idea I was going to write. I heard the song,

I was just really listened to the lyrics of Tis the Damn season by Taylor Swift. And it just

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