How Midsummer Night: A Memoir of Friendship and Loss

The author chronicles the final months of the life of her close friend and fellow teacher, in this unique and unforgettable memoir.

“A wonderful memoir.” —Stephen King

When fifty-six-year-old Richard is diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and inoperable brain cancer, his colleague and friend Janet Somerville begins to document his life in a personal, months-long letter to him, to one day share with his wife and daughters. Teaching together at a Toronto boys’ school, Janet and Richard bonded...