Fade Into You by Catriona Child

It’s 1994, Kurt Cobain has just died, and teenager Alex is spending the summer working in her Aunt’s Bed and Breakfast in rural Argyll. The village pace of life is slow compared to home in Edinburgh and Alex resigns herself to a quiet summer spent serving breakfasts and making beds. Everything changes however once she meets the twin brothers who live next door.

Spanning the next fifteen years of Alex’s life, Fade Into You is a love letter to growing up in Scotland in the 90s and 2000s. Set against a backdrop of T in the Park and the war in Iraq, soundtracked by Britpop and Grunge mixtapes, with the sweet taste of tablet, it is a novel about growing up and growing apart. It explores the intensity of childhood friendships, how they change as we get older but how they never really leave us.

Review

What a blast to the past! This book was pure nostalgia, about first love and growing up in the back of beyond in Scotland! I fell for this book hard and fast. I even started to comply a Spotify playlist and then realised all the songs were already on my throw back playlist. It reminds me of nights in the Cathouse and hungover morning at university.

Kurt Cobain has just died and Alex is having to spend her summer working on her aunts bnb in a tiny village in the Scottish highlands. Alex is used to the fast pace of life in Edinburgh and finds life quite slow in the village. When she meets the twin boys next door everything changes for her. This is a love letter to growing in Scotland and is set against the music of the times along with the Iraq war. 's a tale about friendships, their intensity and how they can fade away...

I loved Alex and her tale of negotiating life hurdles and how she handles her relationships with the twins. There was so much about this book that resonated with me and I devoured it in a few sittings. There is so much about this book to like! The writing was brilliant and I really felt as if I was surrounded by Alex’a world.

Let me know if you pick this one up!