Paradise Beach

Memories of a summer that changed everything

Ada has been sleeping very badly since she was put on medication following an operation for endometriosis. She listens to the noises in her block of flats and thinks back to the summer she spent with her cousin Lilli at her home on the Baltic coast when they were younger. Ada spent that summer perfecting her own body and thinking about Elja, a girl she met there who turned her world upside down. But halfway through the unusually hot summer of 2003 came a terrible pain, and with it a silence, that would gradually cut Ada off from the rest of the world.

PARADISE BEACH is a sensitive coming-of-age novel about the memory of a shimmering hot summer whose effects have never gone away. An artistic and melancholy début novel.

A powerful début novel which weaves female self-empowerment into the story of a timeless summer in a unique way

Feminist, vivid and captivating

A moving coming-of-age novel about tender first love and body image

English sample translation soon available 

Recommended by New Books in German (Spring 2026)