Background
Fletcher was born in Birmingham and studied at the University of York (Bachelor in English and Related Studies) and then at the University of East Anglia (Master of Arts in Creative Writing).
(With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young g...)
With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young girl, Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence and terror of childhood. Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales - a dripping place, where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps and people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her family's dark secret - unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child, and when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosie's abductor is revealed...A truly beautiful and hypnotic first novel, this is both an engaging puzzle and an enchanting work of literature.
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( Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. "Susa...)
Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. "Susan Fletcher's first novel . . . is one of those lyrical books about childhood in which the physical details―the sights, the smells―take on a vividness that's entrancing."―Polly Shulman, New York Times Book Review "Readers who like to plumb the depths of loss and its counterpart―the joy of living―would do well to pick up Eve Green."―Jessica Treadway, Chicago Tribune After her young mother's sudden death eight-year-old Eve is sent to live with her grandparents in rural Wales. In this unfamiliar world, she is told stories about her relatives but is forbidden to ask about her father, an Irish thief who abandoned her mother. When an older girl in town disappears, Eve is drawn into the longstanding secrets and suspicions of her town. A rare page turner, Eve Green is a dramatic story about a grievous error of judgment.
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"A stunning novel...profound, beautiful, and redemptive."―The Guardian Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's bedside, telling the story her own life―her secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to the accident that has brought Amy to this bed. In her "riveting" (Library Journal) second novel, Susan Fletcher probes the troubled bond between two sisters: how their lives are undone by the tumultuous forces of envy and loneliness and, in the end, how love emerges as the greatest force of all. Reading group guide included.
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(This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Rich...)
This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Richard and Judy pick 'Eve Green' is a tale of love and the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie, this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them - and the time comes for his story to be told...Tender, lyrical and redemptive, 'The Silver Dark Sea' is the dazzling new novel from the author of 'Eve Green' (winner of Whitbred First Novel award). It is a story about what life can give and take from us, when we least expect it - and how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all.
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Fletcher was born in Birmingham and studied at the University of York (Bachelor in English and Related Studies) and then at the University of East Anglia (Master of Arts in Creative Writing).
University of York; University of East Anglia.
Her first novel, Eve Green, was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. lieutenant features an eight-year-old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales.
(Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is ...)
(With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young g...)
(This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Rich...)
( Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. "Susa...)
( "A stunning novel...profound, beautiful, and redemptive...)