When Jo Delaney is sent by her newspaper to interview English psychic Luke Gabriel about his predictions for the year ahead, she is shocked and sceptical, especially when he predicts he's going to marry her.
Then Luke's other predictions start coming true and Jo is forced to take him seriously - despite the fact she's just fallen in love with somebody else.
Will Jo and Luke really be married within six months? And can a famous psychic ever be wrong?
Fun, fast-paced and engrossing, The Summer Psychic shows Jessica Adams at the height of her story-telling powers.
Allen & Unwin, Australia
When journalist Katie Pickard is sent by a local paper in Brighton to interview Australian psychic Jim Gabriel about his visions for the year ahead, she has no idea of the effect it will have on her life. As Jim forecasts terrible hurricanes and surprise royal weddings, Katie is sceptical - but when he also predicts that they will be married by the summer, she dismisses everything he says as complete rubbish.
However, as the year unfolds, Jim's predictions for the world start coming true, with a creepy accuracy. Until Katie moves in with a musician called Pete...He hasn't featured in any of Jim's psychic forecasts, but soon Katie thinks that she in love, for the first time since her boyfriend died in a car crash.
Meanwhile, Jim's global visions keep increasing - along with his fame. His controversial views on the afterlife turn him into a modern-day guru, and he becomes increasingly close to Katie. But someone else has their eye on Jim and will do anything she can to destroy their growing friendship.
Then summer arrives, and brings its share of tragedy. But will Jim's strange prediction about a wedding come true? After all, they're just good friends.
Black Swan, UK
