Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth. Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth. Short-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Fiction 2010 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009.