It Wasnt Always Late Summer

This is a powerful story of Mary, a single teenage mother, living on a housing estate plagued with predatory abuse and prostitution, and Annie, an innocent girl whose ghostly presence links the central characters over two generations, bringing the events that led to her death, the loss of innocence and the unfolding story to a dramatic, thrilling conclusion.

Academic, writer, musician and singer-songwriter, this is Ray Noble's first novel. Growing up in a one-parent family on a social housing estate he left school at 15. His writing draws on this early life experience. He has held honorary professorships in medical ethics in India and South Africa and taught medical ethics and physiology at University College London. He is news editor of Voices from Oxford.