Summer Hoyland

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Summer Hoyland

First appearance	2002
Last appearance	2007
Information
Age	14
Occupation	Music School Student
Relatives	Max Hoyland (father) Stephanie Hoyland (stepmother) Boyd Hoyland (brother) Charlie Hoyland (half-brother) Isabelle Hoyland (aunt) Rosie Hoyland (grandmother)
Portrayed by	Marisa Siketa

Summer Rose Hoyland is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marisa Siketa. She first appeared in 2002 until 2005 and made two return visits in 2006 lastly for the marriage of her brother Boyd to Janae Timmins.

1 Summer's Arrival
2 Long QT Syndrome
3 Summer's Departure
4 Family Tree

[edit] Summer's Arrival

Summer arrived on Ramsay Street already scheming. She was selling boxes of stale cookies while claiming to raise money for the recently damaged church. She was quickly found out by her grandmother Rosie Hoyland, but was soon back to conning and scheming people. She was able to get Lou to sell her a box of valuable coins, and quickly exposed Lou and Rosie's relationship to Harold, the person they were trying to keep it from.

[edit] Long QT Syndrome

Summer was having frequent fainting spells, and this led to the diagnosis of Long QT Syndrome (which, in hindsight, is thought to be what her mother died of). After Summer's dad Max was informed of this, he immediately returned home from the oil rig he was working on to be with his daughter. Although she knew her fainting was serious, Summer still tried to use it to her advantage, and initially had people fooled. It was clearer later on, however, that she was almost always faking.

Because Summer had lost her mother at an early age, she didn't have a female role model, so she started getting close with some of the females of Ramsay Street. She first tried to set Nina Tucker up with Ray Milsome, a friend of Stuart Parker's, but this didn't go well as Ray didn't know that Nina was still at school at the time. After this, Nina was employed by Max to be Summer's piano teacher. Summer also got close with Steph Scully, looking up to her and seeing her as a mother figure. Summer soon tried to set Max and Steph up, as she thought they would be a good couple. She asked Steph to be "mother" at a mother-daughter fashion show, and tried to get Max to buy gifts for her.

Summer suddenly collapsed at school, and was told by a doctor that she could have surgery to improve her condition. After a bit of worry, she decided to go through with it. When she woke up, she told her dad why she didn't want to have the operation: she remembered watching a film about a girl that had an operation and died, but she didn't want to worry her dad with this.

[edit] Summer's Departure

Summer left the show to go to a music school, after she was encouraged by Susan Kennedy (now Kinski) to play the keyboard. She occasionally appears in the show to see her family, and for short storylines. Summer's most recent return to Ramsay Street was on 12th February 2007. She came back to be with her family as Max had just returned, and she wanted to spend time with them.

[edit] Family Tree

Paternal line

Rosie Barclay (grandmother), married to Bobby Hoyland (grandfather)
- Max Hoyland (father), married to Claire Hoyland (mother) (deceased) and Stephanie Scully (step-mother)
  - Boyd Hoyland (brother), married to Janae Timmins
  - Summer Hoyland
  - Charlie Hoyland (half-brother)
- Isabelle Hoyland (aunt)
  - Holly Hoyland (cousin)
Colin Barclay (great uncle)