It is Tórshavn in the 1970’s. The protagonist is a 16 year old girl from a dysfunctional home with a tyrant mother. She carries a huge secret, that no one can find out – especially not her mother. The girl is pregnant and she does everything in her power to hide it. But at some point the truth must come out. What will she do, when she can’t hide her secret anymore? 

Summer does not last all year any more is a portrait of a small society where keeping up appearances is the most important of all. A coming of age story that deals with shame, abortion, a dysfunctional mother and secrecy. The novel is an independent sequel to The Girl in the World, Ottarsdóttir’s debut novel from 2020.