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Carley Fortune

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Carley Fortune is a Canadian writer of contemporary romance and women’s fiction, best known for the novels Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake, and This Summer Will Be Different. A former journalist and magazine editor, she is a New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Carley Fortune built her literary career on places she knew intimately long before she published a novel. She spent parts of her young life in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and in Barry’s Bay, a small lakeside town in rural Ontario; both landscapes later fed the atmosphere and emotional geography of her fiction. She earned a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and then built a substantial media career, working across Canadian publications that included Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Refinery29 Canada, where she helped launch the Canadian edition and served as executive editor. Those years gave her a magazine editor’s instinct for structure, pacing, and audience. ((https://www.carleyfortune.com/about))

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I set an achievable goal. And I did it every single day
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It would have been helpful to know in those early days that I needn’t have worried
-Carley Fortune
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Each of my books is a love letter to a different place
-Bawdy Language
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There’s no WiFi, no TV, the water isn’t drinkable. But I love it
-Carley Fortune Is Having One Golden Summer
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This book wrecked me in the best possible way
-Seven Summers
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Visceral and impossible to shake, My Person announces an essential new voice in contemporary fiction
-My Person
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You’ll laugh, you’ll swoon, and you’ll root for Pearl and Cord’s happy ending
-Technically Yours
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Full of zippy banter, gorgeous prose and tender-hearted characters who give the novel a deep, emotional core, it’s a complete delight
-Mrs. Nash's Ashes
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I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough!
-The Lightning Bottles
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It’s a razor-sharp page-turner. Masterful!
-The Whispers

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"Carley Fortune is the master of the love story"

Annabel Monaghan

"There is no summer without a Carley Fortune novel"

Book Riot

"The way that Carley Fortune can bottle up the feeling of summer and put it into a book needs to be studied"

Glamour

"Carley Fortune perfects the nostalgia of young summer love and the choices that change us forever"

Ashley Audrain

"Carley Fortune knows how to tug at your heart"

Kiley Reid

"Carley Fortune has a knack for making the lake the most romantic place on earth, and, as such, One Golden Summer is a delight"

ELLE

"Carley Fortune's Every Summer After found TikTok success, and her new romance, Meet Me at the Lake, continues to dazzle"

PopSugar

"Nothing beats a summer romance—something author Carley Fortune is an expert at"

National Post

"Carley Fortune is an expert at capturing the essence of a sparkling summer romance at the lake"

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