Sommerschwestern

Synopsis of Sommerschwestern

«Sommerschwestern» is the family novel by Monika Peetz, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in paperback (304 pages, in German).

Four very different adult sisters travel to Bergen, on the Dutch coast, summoned by their mother, Henriette Thalberg, to a family reunion. The place, a paradise of their childhood summers, was marked by the death of their father twenty years earlier. The reunion brings to light secrets and reproaches accumulated over decades.

First novel in the «Sommerschwestern» series. Monika Peetz is also the author of the «Die Dienstagsfrauen» series.

For those seeking a family novel about reunions, the relationship between mothers and daughters, and the secrets that surface over time.