'A spry tale of friendship and desire, best inhaled in a single sitting. Summer Hours is astute, funny, and fizzing with life' - Malachy Tallack

'a vital and vivid examination of life in the modern world,' - SNACK Magazine, 10 Books for 2025

'Alessandra’s writing is both vivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise and an enviable instinct for rhythm. Whether its subject is family legacy and memory or the precarities of young adulthood, this is writing attuned – apparently effortlessly – to both atmospheric subtleties and the timeless antagonisms of intimacy' - Daisy Lafarge

'Everything about this book is alive. I inhaled it' - Maria Sledmere, author and critic