"Summer in My Mother's Garden" is about transience. Beautifully narrated like a sunset over the Ligurian Sea, we read a novel that poignantly remembers the life of the mother and all those touched by it; it also tells the story of a daughter who can only let go after often painful journeys into the gardens of shared memories. It is a short summer lasting four weeks, during which mother and daughter say goodbye to each other. Confronted with the diagnosis of an incurable illness and the mother's decision to choose a self-determined death, the daughter Francesca embarks on a quest for traces. From Chiavari, a small town on the Ligurian coast where the mother was born in the 1930s, the memories lead to Zurich, to a suburban neighborhood where daughter Francesca experienced her youth in the 1960s.