Sara experienced-and continues to experience-abrupt mood swings, her familial relationships suffering as a result.
When a flock of swans briefly relocates to the lake near 14-year-old Sara Godfrey’s home, she considers them a welcome sight during an otherwise abysmal summer. This guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of the term. Then used in everyday speech and medical terminology, the term “retarded” appears occasionally in the text, its implications varying depending on the speaker’s intent. Written in 1970, the language used to describe Charlie’s intellectual disability is reflective of the time period. This guide is based on the 1996 Puffin paperback edition. With its third person point-of-view, the novel explores agency and identity, grief and loss, and above all, various social dynamics-these dynamics being explored via both Sara and Charlie’s viewpoints. She must draw upon hidden strength in order to find him. The novel spans roughly 24 hours as Sara searches for her 10-year-old brother Charlie (with an intellectual disability) who goes missing.
The Summer of the Swans is a coming-of-age story that follows 14-year-old Sara Godfrey, a girl caught between a family crisis and her own adolescent struggles.
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