{"id":3374,"date":"2026-06-03T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/culture\/tales-tea-every-summer-after-by-carley-fortune\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:24:11","slug":"tales-tea-every-summer-after-by-carley-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/culture\/tales-tea-every-summer-after-by-carley-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales &#038; Tea: \u201cEvery Summer After\u201d by Carley Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You\u2019re about to be booked<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to Tales &amp; Tea\u2014the very first Bazaar Book Club. Think of it as your monthly invitation to slow down, steep a cup, and lose yourself in a story worth talking about. Each month, we\u2019ll be choosing a book that moves us: reading it together, unpacking its themes and going well beyond the final page\u2014because the best books deserve more than a five-star rating and a shelf.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month, we\u2019re starting somewhere special. Our debut pick is <em>Every Summer After<\/em> by Carley Fortune\u2014a novel about first love, the summers that shape us, and whether some people are ever truly behind us. And the timing? Couldn\u2019t be better. The series adaptation arrives on your screens on Prime Video on 10 June. So settle in, pour something warm, and read the book first. You\u2019ll thank yourself later.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"bz-embed\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Every Year After - Official Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5SpqQ8dNa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All you need to know about our book of the month, \u201cEvery Summer After\u201d:<\/h2>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Carley Fortune?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before she became a novelist, Carley Fortune built a career telling other people\u2019s stories. An award-winning Canadian journalist, she edited at some of the country\u2019s most influential publications\u2014The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life\u2014before eventually debuting her novel, <em>Every Summer After,<\/em> in 2022. She promptly became a sensation, landing Fortune at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, she has released four other books, and have sold more than four million copies, has been translated into 30 languages, and has found their way to screens. She writes from Toronto, where she lives with her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the book about?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the book \u201cEvery Summer After\u201d by Carley Fortune, the series will centre on a nostalgic, second-chance romance. Told over six years and one pivotal weekend timeline, the series sees Persephone Fraser going back to Barry\u2019s Bay after a phone call changes everything, and reuniting with Sam Florek\u2014the person she\u2019d convinced herself she could survive losing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"px-4 md:px-8 max-w-[1100px] mx-auto\">\t<figure class=\"my-10  max-w-[560px] mx-auto\">\n\t\t<div class=\"relative  bg-stone overflow-hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/1920\"><img width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58014893-3.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"Every Summer After\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1024px) 960px, 100vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58014893-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58014893-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58014893-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/58014893-3-768x1152.jpg 768w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What themes are in the book?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second chances, summer nostalgia, first love, forgiveness, grief and found family.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is the book for?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one\u2019s for the reader who wants romance that means something. A friends-to-lovers story soaked in summer nostalgia\u2014emotional, unhurried, and the kind that stays with you long after the last page.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"bz-embed\"><blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZHpWF_Kmyu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZHpWF_Kmyu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Harper\u2019s BAZAAR Malaysia (@harpersbazaarmy)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s a quote from the book that\u2019ll make you read it?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way I felt about you was always so clear to me\u2014even when we were young, I knew you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a whole. I loved you so much that the word \u2018love\u2019 didn\u2019t seem big enough for how I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is there a book adaptation?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/harpersbazaar.my\/lifestyle\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-primes-every-year-after-tv-series\/\">the eight-episode series<\/a> will be premiering on Prime Video on 10 June.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section class=\"my-14 md:my-20 overflow-hidden\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"no-scrollbar flex gap-4 md:gap-6 overflow-x-auto snap-x snap-mandatory px-4 md:px-8 pb-2 scroll-px-4 md:scroll-px-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"snap-start shrink-0 w-[78vw] sm:w-[48vw] md:w-[30vw]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"relative aspect-[4\/5] bg-stone overflow-hidden\"><img width=\"331\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/239703816-6.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 30vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/239703816-6.jpg 331w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/239703816-6-199x300.jpg 199w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2\">01 \u2014 <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"snap-start shrink-0 w-[78vw] sm:w-[48vw] md:w-[30vw]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"relative aspect-[4\/5] bg-stone overflow-hidden\"><img width=\"259\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/61797464.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 30vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/61797464.jpg 259w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/61797464-194x300.jpg 194w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2\">02 \u2014 <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"snap-start shrink-0 w-[78vw] sm:w-[48vw] md:w-[30vw]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"relative aspect-[4\/5] bg-stone overflow-hidden\"><img width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/217245639.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 30vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/217245639.jpg 750w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/217245639-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/217245639-683x1024.jpg 683w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2\">03 \u2014 <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"snap-start shrink-0 w-[78vw] sm:w-[48vw] md:w-[30vw]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"relative aspect-[4\/5] bg-stone overflow-hidden\"><img width=\"750\" height=\"1157\" src=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/197577126.jpg\" class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full object-cover\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 30vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/197577126.jpg 750w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/197577126-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/197577126-664x1024.jpg 664w\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption mt-2\">04 \u2014 <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What other Carley Fortune books are coming to the screen?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Every Summer After<\/i> won\u2019t be Fortune\u2019s sole book-to-screen project. Her 2023 release, <i>Meet Me at the Lake<\/i>, is in development as a feature film through Archewell Productions\u2014the company founded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On the other hand, Fortune\u2019s book, <em>Th<\/em><em>is Summer Will Be Different,<\/em> got picked up by Netflix, so we can anticipate this in the future soon, since filming will commence in the summer.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <i>One Golden Summer<\/i> being released this year and the TV adaptation expanding beyond the original book\u2019s title to allow for a broader narrative scope, there\u2019s room for speculation about what might come next. Could we eventually see Charlie\u2019s brother\u2019s story\u2014the companion novel, adapted as well? It\u2019s purely hopeful thinking at this point, but given how Fortune\u2019s romances are resonating with producers, we\u2019re keeping our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Tales &#038; Tea this month, we&#8217;re reading &#8220;Every Summer After&#8221; by Carley Fortune, in honour of the book adaptation coming to your screens soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","bz_kicker":"","bz_opener":"bleed","bz_photographer":"","bz_hero_caption":"","bz_hero_credit":"","bz_hero_clip":0,"bz_inset":0,"bz_tile_image":0,"bz_clip":0,"bz_tile_dek":"","bz_reading_time":"","bz_duration":"","bz_feature_small":0,"bz_feature_medium":0,"bz_feature_quote":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1213,1295,1327],"bz_slot":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-book","tag-carley-fortune","tag-every-summer-after"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"bz_slot","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bz_slot?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}