It Is Always Summer is the last of the four Kingston novels that David Helwig produced in the closing decades of the last century in which, as one reviewer put it, he "transforms Kingston into an exotic Venice of the north."(Matt Cohen) The narrative is as luxurious and disturbing as the lives reflected in it. This new edition has been revised by the author. "David Helwig has done that rare thing: written a novel about men and women that describes all characters in equal detail, sensitivity and depth in poetic, sensual language." (Montreal Gazette.)