Piper was arrested and taken to the police station, but she charmed the guard and her younger sister, Hannah, came to bail her out. Kirby told them that Piper had organized the whole event. To restore her reputation, Piper impulsively decided to break into the Mondrian Hotel and throw a huge party at the rooftop pool.Īfter posting a revealing picture of herself at the pool, the police arrived. However, when she left the party and called her friend, Kirby, Kirby told Piper that the news of the breakup has already wound up online and the rumor was that Piper had begged Adrian not to break up with her. Piper, an Instagram model and socialite with a wealthy stepfather who paid all her credit card bills, pretended not to care because she did not want a bad photo of her to end up online. Her boyfriend of three weeks, Adrian, broke up with her in the middle of the party and accused her of being a bimbo with nothing at all unique or interesting about her. The story begins with 28-year-old Piper at a fancy Hollywood party. However, as their relationship begins to progress, the narrator brings the two characters closer together and narrates both of their perspectives in the same chapter, though usually the narrator still uses chapter breaks to distinguish between their vantage points. In the beginning, the narrator only presents Piper’s narration in her chapters, and Brendan’s narration in his chapters. The novel is narrated in the past-tense by a third-person narrator who switches back and forth between Piper and Brendan. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bailey, Tessa It Happened One Summer.

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey