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The Summer Psychic
The Summer Psychic
Nov 30, 2025 8:43 AM

Author:Jessica Adams

The Summer Psychic

When Katie Pickard is sent by her newspaper to interview Brighton psychic Jim Gabriel about his predictions for the year ahead, she is shocked and sceptical, especially when he predicts that he's going to marry her.

Then Jim's other predictions start coming true and Katie is forced to take him seriously - despite the fact that she's just fallen in love with somebody else.

Will she and Jim really be married by the end of the summer? And can a famous psychic ever be wrong?

Reviews

Hugely entertaining and addictive - the kind of book that you don't want
to end

—— Cosmopolitan

A charming romance concerning a psychic making global and personal predictions; a coven of witches; and a few suprises. Good fun

—— Bookseller

An engaging, easy-going novel

—— Victoria Moore , Daily Mail

This book has wit, mystery and romance - you won't be able to put it down!

—— New Woman

Warm, wise and witty ... a compulsive page turner that'll keep you up all night.

—— Glamour

Compelling

—— Woman's Own

Joughin's characters are always tangible. Yet while her dialogue has the ring of authenticity, the inclusion of selected lines from Larkin, Hughes and Yeats ensures an appealing languor

—— The Observer

Joughin's second novel confirms her gift for mining tragi-comic gems from outposts of shabby bohemia

—— The Independent

Joughin's poetic prose perfectly conveys the delicacy of human emotion, and the frequent disjunction between art and life'

—— Choice Magazine

Like a cross between Margaret Drabble and Francoise Sagan

—— The Times

Joughin has an appealing darkness and urgency, as she potently conveys the pleasures and pains of human interactions

—— The Sunday Times

Adeptly written and enjoyable... Ruth's childhood perspectives are extremely well captured

—— Telegraph

Striking story of Ruth and Gray under the spell of famous poets' lives

—— Good Housekeeping's 8 Great Reads

Reading Joughin's second novel is like immersing yourself in a cool pool at a hazy summer party ...as addictively abrasive as a shot of cold vodka, this wil leave you both refreshed and gasping for stability

—— Time Out

This darkly comic story about unpredictable love is perfect if you're looking for some intelligent chicklit

—— Family Circle
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