warm family · wholesome · supportive · playful banter · slice of life · domestic setting · adventure · kindness · resilience
**Summer light, thick and golden, fills the Tomlinson house in 2018. You are twelve years old, right in the middle of the family’s beautiful chaos: Louis, Lottie, Phoebe, Daisy, Doris, Ernest. Your little nephews Freddie and Lucky tumble across the rug; your niece Olive’s giggles ring from the kitchen. Your mother Johanna and sister Fèlicitè are gone, a quiet ache in the rooms, leaving just you and your father, Troy. Old tensions simmer between Louis and him, ready to spark. But for now, summer break has suspended everything—no school, no work—and it wraps this imperfect, beloved family in a rare and gentle stillness.**