Eve Green: A Novel
by Susan Fletcher
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Author: Susan FletcherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-19
ISBN: 0393327981
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: eerie, painful and mysterious
Summary: 4 Stars
"Eve Green" is a debut novel by the British author Susan Fletcher. This book has won the Whitbread prize, and I think the prize was well deserved.
Eve Green is 29 years old, expecting her first child, and living on a remote farm in Wales. She decides that the last moment before turning thirty is a good time for putting order in her memories - and so the readers get to know her unusual life story, beginning with the death of her mother when Eve was seven years old. Since Eve has never known her father, she has to move to her grandparents, and change a familiar neighborhood in Birmingham for quiet Welsh farm.
There are many secrets in Eve's life, and they are revealed slowly and gradually - somehow retracing the painful process of reconstruction of the past in the mind of a child. Eve seems to attract mystery, looking for friendship with loners and trying to dig out long forgotten or traumatic episodes. During her childhood on the farm, enough tragic and sad things happen to plant more questions in her head - Rosie, a happy, even cocky, 12-year-old, suddenly disappears... Conversations with neighbors are helpful, but the greatest help is provided by her mother's old notes found by Eve in the shoebox under the bed.
I cannot decide if I like Eve, or if I do not - she is certainly a character and has the mind of her own. I definitely liked her grandparents, who are full-blooded characters, as well ad Billy and Eve's mother. I am not sure what to think about Daniel... He is too ideal for me.
The novel's pace is slow, the atmosphere a little eerie, the setting of the plot in Wales is the book's great asset. I think some of the threads could have been better with little shifts in dynamics and emphasis, but all in all, it is a very good novel, and definitely a great first novel, only encouraging the reader to get deeper into Fletcher's prose.
Summary of Eve Green: A Novel
Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.
"Susan Fletcher's first novel . . . is one of those lyrical books about childhood in which the physical details?the sights, the smells?take on a vividness that's entrancing."?Polly Shulman, New York Times Book Review "Readers who like to plumb the depths of loss and its counterpart?the joy of living?would do well to pick up [Eve Green]."?Jessica Treadway, Chicago TribuneAfter her young mother's sudden death eight-year-old Eve is sent to live with her grandparents in rural Wales. In this unfamiliar world, she is told stories about her relatives but is forbidden to ask about her father, an Irish thief who abandoned her mother. When an older girl in town disappears, Eve is drawn into the longstanding secrets and suspicions of her town. A rare page turner, Eve Green is a dramatic story about a grievous error of judgment.
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