Her brother has gone bonkers. He’s pouring all the booze down the drain and announcing he’s turning the pub into a worship center for Jesus people. Mona and Phil inherited the pub from their parents, and live upstairs; Phil (Paddy Considine) has come to Jesus belatedly, after a spell in prison. Mona (Natalie Press) gets on her moped, which has no engine but nevertheless functions as a symbol of escape, and wheels it into the country outside their small Yorkshire town. That’s the day she meets Tamsin.
The title of “My Summer of Love” gives away two games at once: that she will fall in love, and that autumn will come. Mona is a tousled blonde, 16 years old, dressed in whatever came to hand when she got up in the morning, bored by her town, her brother and her life. Her boyfriend has just broken up with her in a particularly brutal way. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is a rich girl, about the same age, sleek and brunette, on horseback the first time Mona sees her. She’s spending the summer at her family’s country house. “You’re invited,” she tells Mona. “I’m always here.”
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