Jenny Jackson’s first novel Pineapple Street was one of my favourite new books of 2023 and so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that her new novel is the new release that I want to highlight this week. Per the Blurb: The Shampoo Effect is about one summer in New England, where writer Caroline arrives in Greenhead and falls for its charms and for one of it’s residents, Van Whittaker. She spends the summer with his friends, including one who is pregnant with Van’s child, and it seems that the fun will keep coming – right up until it doesn’t. I love a rich people problems story – and I’ve also had a pretty good run of summer people and year round people novels which this sounds like it is too, so I have high hopes for this – and I have it on my pile ready to go too!
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