Summer Snow: A Family Under a Menacing Sun

6 November 2026

Pauline de Vergnette, This Summer It Snows, Panseur Editions, 20/08/2026, €19.

In the grand southern house where a family gathers every summer, an old nursery rhyme is hummed whose last words make a child cry for help under the blazing sun. A poet of L’Endroit aigu and author of three novels, Pauline de Vergnette builds her entire book on this chant where the carefree spirit of summer gradually turns to dread.

The article Cet été il neige – une famille sous un soleil menaçant est apparu en premier sur Lythrum Press.

Amelia Hartwell

I write about books the way I read them: slowly, curiously, and with attention to the details that linger after the final page. At Lythrum Press, I cover literary fiction, essays, memoirs and the wider culture of reading, with a particular interest in voices that challenge familiar ways of seeing the world. My work is guided by one simple idea: a good book deserves more than a reaction — it deserves a conversation.

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