Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8624 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Mavis Cheek
'Susan Fletcher is a clever, assured writer who can write truthfully about love in its many guises.'

Marika Cobbold
'A most impressive debut...the story makes you want to really turn the pages.'

Observer
'an exceptional debut of grace and subtlety.'

Customer Reviews

Lovely, but difficult to love
The writing is beautiful, the first few chapters are amazingly descriptive, and then about a third of the way through I just stopped caring about the book. There seemed to be too much going on, and at the same time too little to make me want to find out what happened next. The only character I really cared about was Eve's mother, none of the other's really came to life, which is ironic as Eve's mother dies at the very beginning of the book. I think the story could have been told in a shorter book. I wish Susan Fletcher every success as she's clearly a very talented writer but I would be inclined to borrow rather than buy this book.

Hey Ho, R and J.
You would have to go a long way to find three chapters as emotive as the first few here. The words are simple and convey so much. Well written, with seamless switching between times that is an achievement of expert subtlety. The excellent quality does taper away however, but there are no especial troughs in a generally well balanced novel. Ordinarily I would not have read this because it has Richard and Judy written all over it, hey ho. The type of book that falls off the shelf for you and then you cannot stop reading. Ignore all that commercial stuff in the final pages!

Uninteresting
How this book won an award beats me. It's the first I've written by this author and I found it boring, nothing happened.