Elle M Keating is a writer and author from Hampshire, UK
Her debut novel, Poison Summer, is available now.
Elle M Keating writes twisty, dark-edged retro tales featuring emotionally complex, flawed characters.
Capturing the zeitgeist of each era with fashion, musical and cultural references, she loves an unreliable narrator and a protagonist with flaws
POISON SUMMER
There was something in the air that summer. It was almost palpable, throbbing with the underlying heaviness that precedes an electrical storm. The whole city seemed pressurised, volatile, on edge. A tight knot of tension was in everything, including me. Like an overwound guitar string, I was about to snap.
I must have wanted change so badly, I’d somehow manifested it into being, because, when I’d stepped off the plane that night, I’d just known it was out there, waiting for me in the blackness.
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It’s 1988.
Margaret Thatcher’s in charge, George Michael is topping the charts and bored, restless Melanie has fallen for handsome waiter Marios on an idyllic, sun-soaked Greek island holiday,
He’s charismatic, clearly smitten and begs her to tear up her ticket and stay on his island with him,
There’s just one little problem…
Melanie’s on holiday with her husband and this is supposed to be their second honeymoon.
You can sometimes have too much sun…
The sun rose over the sea, draping a chiffon-pink glow over the pastel horizon, gradually infusing everything with golden light.
You can sometimes have too much sea…
In that moment, I could see everything wrong with my life. In those sun-splashed second on those white plastic sun beds, everything changed.
And you can certainly have too much time on your hands…
Making my way back up the sand, my head was littered with very unwelcome thoughts…