Summer with Monika

Roger McGough

Jun 2017 · Penguin UK

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Summer with Monika is an honest and touching portrait of a romance, charting the progress of a love affair from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon, with the milk bottles turning to cheese on the doorstep, through the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed.

Re-issued for its 50th anniversary, Summer with Monika is a hidden gem of British love poetry featuring beautiful illustrations from Children's Laureate Chris Riddell.

About the author

Roger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.

Chris Riddell, Waterstones Children's Laureate 2015-2017, is the creator of an extraordinary range of books which have won awards including the UNESCO Prize, the Greenaway Medal and the Hay Festival Medal for Illustration. His work includes the highly-acclaimed Ottoline titles and the 2013 Costa Children's Book Award-winning Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse. Chris has also collaborated with high-profile figures such as Neil Gaiman and Paul Stewart, and is a renowned political cartoonist.

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