Seven Summers

Toon’s (Only Love Can Hurt Like This) latest transports listeners to a seaside town in Cornwall, England, and shows slices of the protagonist’s life across several years. Freshly returned from a sculpting course in Italy, Liv has simple plans for her summer: spend time with friends and family and save money so she can move to London. Then tragedy strikes, causing Liv’s life to crumble. Her former classmate Finn is home from Los Angeles for the summer and filling in with a mutual friend’s band before returning to his burgeoning music career. Sparks ignite when Finn and Liv meet. Knowing their time together is limited, they make a pact. If neither one has a significant other the following summer, they will continue where they left off. After seven summers of this, a new visitor changes everything. Narrator Natalie Simpson breathes life into Liv’s story, pulling listeners in and helping them experience the emotions in the scenes. In addition to her deft portrayal of Liv, she effectively captures the secondary characters.