Made with great panache, this is a real gem of understated poignancy; about summers as lovely as they are fraught.

Arterton towers in the role, not always in a good way. A stronger director might have reined her in, but Swale is not yet that experienced. When you add a large amount of treacle to the mix, the film becomes cloying and pushy.

The child actors - Bond and Dixie Egerickx who plays a schoolfriend - are the most convincing elements of this woefully unconvincing romantic drama.

After the third act lands with a thud, it poisons that first hour to the point that the whole thing, at best, just feels like a waste.