Sunburn

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp....

A tender and heartfelt coming-of-age tale

Plenty of novelists have attempted to capture the euphoria and insanity of first love, but few as engrossingly as Chloe Michelle Howarth. Queer readers especially will relate to all the knotty, complex and exciting yet anxiety-laden feelings

Plenty of novelists have attempted to capture the euphoria and insanity of first love, but few as engrossingly as Chloe Michelle Howarth

A deeply moving, heartfelt love story

A tender evocation of that time between adolescence and early adulthood and the accompanying rites of passage

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.