Summer of blue

All Milly has is hope. Her brother, Neel, is missing and presumed dead in Afghanistan, but she refuses to give up on him.

As she turns seventeen, there are only three wishes she wants to come true: get Neel home, get a boyfriend, get into Cambridge University.

When Milly and her three privileged friends are catapulted into misadventures, capers with unsuitable boys and the pressures of friendships, family and Sixth Form, it's almost more than she can bear.

From the spires of Cambridge to sunny Mumbai and the shadows of war-torn Afghanistan, Milly's offbeat story of love, loss and longing confirms that life is anything but predictable. 'Balsari's writing is observant, witty, sad, funny, shocking, provocative and yet deeply satisfying'?

Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows