Susan Fletcher Livres

Eve, petite fille rousse et délurée, est recueillie par ses grands-parents à la mort soudaine de sa mère, dans un village au cœur du pays de Galles. À cause de sa chevelure rousse indomptable, elle doit faire face au mépris et à la méfiance. Mais lorsqu'une enfant disparaît mystérieusement, la vie des villageois bascule : enquête, soupçons et mensonges deviennent le quotidien. Au milieu de cette effervescence, Eve, perdue, tente de percer les secrets de sa vie et de sa naissance. Dans ce roman, les pièces du puzzle s'imbriquent progressivement pour former un magnifique conte d'innocence perdue.

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 new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green' and Oystercatchers'.

Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his jealous brother Rog.

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.For another death was yet to come -- a swift, snatched death. It made ditches seem darker and sleep harder to find. It meant that if the wind picked up quickly enough, and without enough warning, I'd run.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 open in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosie's abductor is revealed, along with the understanding that through her suppressed grief and the strange friendships made during her first Welsh summer Evie learnt hard lessons -- about trust, identity, guilt, love, and how to survive when love is gone...A truly beaut

A tender and savage novel narrated by the wife of the doctor who tended van Gogh in his last, madly frenetic painting years.

This poignant historical nonfiction book, about a polar bear that was gifted to King Henry III, beautifully shows the importance of respecting our natural world and its precious animals. Long ago, when kings and queens ruled much of the world, the king of Norway gave the king of England a bear.Imagine a polar bear at ease in her natural arctic world, her only home--until trappers capture her and take her to the king of England.Imagine a polar bear in her lonely new world, stuck in a cage. This small, enclosed space is her only home--until King Henry III decrees that she be brought to the Thames River every day to swim and fish.Imagine now this same polar bear dipping a curious paw in the river water, then leaping in with a joyful splash. And it is here, in this unfamiliar, faraway land, in one small way, that she finds home once again.

'A wonderfully warm and involving page-turner.' Clare Chambers, Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Pleasures ------- Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day. And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth. As she does, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life . . . and a long-buried secret, traced in faded scars across her knuckles, becomes ever harder to ignore. Prize-winning author Susan Fletcher's The Night in Question is an absorbing and uplifting story with a uniquely loveable protagonist at its heart. ' Fletcher's prose is extraordinarily lyrical . . . and her themes are profound.' Sunday Times 'A gifted storyteller' Independent 'Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart.' Guardian