Sara Baume:
(born 1984.
Irish novelist. She was named on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list in 2023.
The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels. There’s no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.
This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August—the summer’s last stand.
