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|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer

|author=Joff Winterhart

|publisher=Jonathan Cape

|date=June 2012

|summary=While it might not look attractive enough for some, the depth of this warm-hearted and amusing domestic drama does shine brightly.

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Meet Daniel Bagnold. He is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, with long, lanky hair and almost a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music that forms almost his only interest. He has been forced to spend the summer, not in Florida with his absent father's new family, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shyness. He doesn't want much, and neither it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – the two of them and the dog that completes the household – in telling, devastating and humorous manner.