Eve Green - Susan Fletcher

This book won the Whitbread (Now Costa Coffee) First Novel Award in 2004, the year it was published. It was also selected as part of the Richard and Judy Summer Reads in 2005, and in part that was the reason I picked it up (although I peeled the sticker off, because I am a snob) as I have enjoyed some of their selections in the past. At the time it was an unknown book to me and keen to try something new I took a chance with this book. I am glad to say it paid off. This is a story about Love, but not always in the conventional sense, it is as much about family love and friendship as romantic love. It is also a story about loss. Evangeline Jones, known as Evie, ...

Sometimes we fool ourselves into hiding memories of our past. Sometimes memories of our childhood are so wrapped up in confusion and misunderstanding that we fail to see them as significant. Eve Green is the 2005 Whitbread winner for debut novelist Susan Fletcher. It concerns the memories of the main character Eve, as she contemplates the birth of her first child. Eve's life could never have been described as easy, her mother died when she was a child, meaning she is ripped from her familiar urban landscape and thrown into one of the most remote and rural area of Wales to live with her grandparents. As a child Eve is not welcomed by the ...

If I had half the intelligence, bravery and romance that Eve Green has I would be a very lucky lady. Evie as she is also known as a child, has all these things at the tender age of eight. This book is not my typical read at all, it has been on my book shelf for about a year waiting in a queue to be read. I finally read it last week in two or three sittings. It is 215 pages long so it is quite a quick read but its by no means fluffy and light. I found it a bit confusing in places, Susan Fletcher suggests something that has happened and you are left wondering if it really did. + The story + I think we all have aspects of Evangeline the ...