Top 10 summer love stories

Uitgereikt door The Guardian

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The philosopher Bernard Williams once wrote, “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

Summer doesn’t have a monopoly on love stories. But there is, for sure, toon meer fertile ground to be had linking burgeoning passions to the rising mercury, in flowering romance amid the summer blooms, in Shirley Valentine-esque escapes to foreign shores with the promise of carefree assignations.

Is there a difference between a romance novel and a love story? Possibly, though it might be a division based on current genre classifications. Romance novels seem concerned chiefly with the relationship as the central plank of the narrative. A love story tends, in my experience, to have the romantic aspects almost secondary to the main plot.

With a romance, we might expect a happy ever after, with a love story, things might not always run so smoothly.

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All good stories are love stories really, and here are my top 10 favourite summer sizzlers.

David Barnett – LT author page toon minder
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2023

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