Susan Fletcher
Paperback | Pages: 287 pages Rating: 3.68 | 1932 Users | 200 Reviews
Details Regarding Books Eve Green
| Title | : | Eve Green |
| Author | : | Susan Fletcher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
| Published | : | September 19th 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published June 21st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary |
Description Conducive To Books Eve Green
Pregnant with her first child, Eve Green recalls her mother's death when she was eight years old and her struggle to make sense of her parents' mysterious romantic past. Eve is sent to live with her grandparents in rural Wales, where she finds comfort in friendships with Daniel, a quiet farmhand, and Billy, a disabled, reclusive friend of her mother's. When a ravishing local girl disappears, one of Eve's friends comes under suspicion. Eve will do everything she can to protect him, but at the risk of complicity in a matter she barely understands. This is a timeless and beautifully told story about family secrets and unresolved liaisons.Declare Books During Eve Green
| Original Title: | Eve Green |
| ISBN: | 0393327981 (ISBN13: 9780393327984) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Eve-Green/ |
| Literary Awards: | Whitbread Award for First Novel (2004), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2006), Betty Trask Award (2005), Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (2004) |
Rating Regarding Books Eve Green
Ratings: 3.68 From 1932 Users | 200 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books Eve Green
After 8-year-old Eve Greens mother dies, she is sent to Wales to live with her grandparents whom she has never met. She experiences a calamitous year during which she uncovers secrets about her parents while also being tragically affected by the disappearance of a young girl. This year in her life is told in retrospective when Eve is 29 years old and trying to make sense of all that happened at that time.This is a beautiful novel filled with lyrical prose, vivid descriptions, and a compellingA beautiful and effortless read! Just loved it. It was pure joy!
Eight-year-old Eve Green is sent from her city life in Birmingham to grandparents in an isolated village in rural Wales after her mother dies. There she tries to rebuild roots and discover the truth about a father that nobody wants to talk about. But a village is not necessarily such a safe place...I loved this book. It brings out the confusion and sense of loss of an orphaned child in a very restrained and yet affecting way. Many things are overstated, like her sense of guilt for her part in
I found this book slowgoing early on. The prose felt overdone and the foreshadowing, if you can even call it that, felt clunky. The author seemed to struggle with adopting a non-linear mode of storytelling and though I thought the writing was ambitious, it never really swept me away.But about halfway through the book -- where the plot really kicked in, I suppose -- I began to appreciate her efforts more. I genuinely liked most of the characters, and there are some beautiful reflections on
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"In the shoebox there are more than just scraps of paper. There are objects--things I can only assume had a hidden, private meaning to them. Love tokens, as Mrs Maddox might say. . . .They make me both happy and wistful. Like a mouse, she hoarded these objects. She tucked herself around them, kept them warm. Kept them in the musty dark under her Birmingham bed."Eve Green, awaiting the birth of her first child, thinks back to her childhood years. After her single mother dies, she is taken in by
Oystercatchers is better. I like second book of the Susan Fletcher than the first, well both are very much same in story but the second one was written better..Story is of single line, a pregnant woman recollecting her memories of the time she arrived to Wales after her mother's death. In her childhood, she made mistakes which has some result, some better some good but all and all she is a happy woman now. But i like the writing style which is juvenile and ripe full in next book. Read more
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