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During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has imagined since she was just a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the ocean where she actually is an apprentice actress. She’s never noticed so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the business, and the first man Elizabeth’s ever before kissed that has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth’s perfect summer months is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the type of man she thought he was.

Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed within an introduction by the author’s granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is near to an autobiographical portrait of L’Engle herself as a female—“vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and everything that life has to offer.”