One Italian Summer

"When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone. But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother's spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life. And then Carol appears, in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn't understand what is happening, or how, all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue."--Provided by publisher.

Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Once and Again, Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com. Lauren Graham is an award-winning actress, producer, and three-time New York Times bestselling author best known for her work on the critically acclaimed television shows Parenthood and Gilmore Girls. She currently stars in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, on which she serves as Executive Producer. She is also a screenwriter who most recently completed an adaptation of the popular YA novel Field Notes on Love for HBO MAX in collaboration with its author, Jennifer E. Smith. Her second essay collection for Penguin Random House, Have I Told You This Already?, will be released in September 2022. She holds a degree in English from Barnard College and an MFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.