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SUSAN FLETCHER


WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham, and is a graduate of the University of York and the Creative Writing MA programme at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Eve Green, won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2005 and appeared on Richard and Judy’s Summer Read list for the same year. Her books have also been shortlisted for the Writers’ Guild Award, the John Llewellyn Rees Award and the LA Times First Novel Award. She lives in Warwickshire.

SUSAN FLETCHER

EVE GREEN

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.

OYSTERCATCHERS

The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning ‘Eve Green’

Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here, Moira confesses. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood; to her savagery at boarding school; to the wild, bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life. Moira knows this: that she’s been a poor daughter, and a deceptive wife. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: she’s been a cruel sister, and it is this cruelty that has led them both here, to this hospital bed.

A novel about trust, loss and loneliness, ‘Oystercatchers’ is a love story with a profound darkness at its core.

WITCH LIGHT

1692. Corrag, a wild young girl from the mountains of Scotland, has been imprisoned as a witch. Terrified, in a cold, filthy cell, she awaits her fate of death by burning – until she is visited by Charles Leslie, a young Irishman, hungry to question her. For Corrag knows more than it seems: she was witness to the bloody and brutal Massacre of Glencoe.

But to reveal what she knows, Corrag demands a chance to tell her true story. It is a tale of passion and courage, magic and betrayal, and the difference that a single heart can make to the great events of history.

THE SILVER DARK SEA

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.

A LITTLE IN LOVE

As a young child Eponine never knew kindness, except once from her family’s kitchen slave, Cosette. When at sixteen the girls’ paths cross again and their circumstances are reversed, Eponine must decide what that friendship is worth, even though they’ve both fallen for the same boy. In the end, Eponine will sacrifice everything to keep true love alive.

The course was so worthwhile. Even more so than I anticipated. The best part is suddenly having a much clearer idea of my brand.

— SUSAN FLETCHER