LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree for the Daily Mail Posted: 5:46 p.m. EDT, July 15, 2021 | Update: 5:46 p.m. EDT, July 15, 2021 Heatwave by Victor Jestin (Scribner £ 12.99, 112 pp) Heat wave by Victor Jestin (Scribner £ 12.99, 112 pp) This short, sharp, shock of a novel caused a sensation in his native France. This is told by Léonard, a teenager on vacation with his parents in a campsite in the Landes who one evening sees another boy of the same age hang himself in a playground.