Bøger af Susan Fletcher

The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers'.

An original and timely new YA novel from acclaimed author Susan Fletcher, set in a near-future where rogue gene editing has changed humanity-loosely based on The Little MermaidA girl torn between two worlds . . . Turtle is scavenging a drowned town when she saves a stranger's life. There's something special about Kai-an attraction she's never felt before. She would do anything to see him again. But Turtle can never truly be with Kai, because Kai is Normal, and Turtle is one of the Mer, kids whose genes were illegally hacked before birth and who now have working gills as well as lungs. Turtle lives on an old cruise ship with the other Mer in order to be close to the water she needs to survive. Yet she sneaks away and lies to her friends to spend more time on land with Kai. And the pull of the shore grows even stronger when Turtle reconnects with her sisters and learns that her father, who has been in prison for having her genes modified, has escaped and may be hiding out nearby. When scientists come up with a way for the Mer to surrender their gills and live as Normals, Turtle faces a terrible choice. Turtle loves her life with her Mer friends, but she desperately misses her family. And then there's Kai . . . Should she give up her Mer community and their way of life, along with the joy of living freely under the sea? Or give up the guy she's falling for . . . and any hope of reconnecting with her family?

Several major statutes form the legal basis for the programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Many of these have been amended several times. The current provisions of each are briefly summarized in this report.

Dieser leidenschaftliche Roman zeichnet das unvergessliche Bild eines zerrissenen Dorfes und eines Verbrechens, für das ein unschuldiger Mann büßen muss.Erzählt im Rückblick von der erwachsenen, nun schwangeren Eve Green, die als Achtjährige nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter in das walisische Dorf gebracht wurde, ist das Debüt von Susan Fletcher ein griffiges Stück Literatur über Vertrauen, Schuld und Lüge und darüber, wie man lebt, wenn die Liebe aus dem Leben verschwunden ist. Außerordentlich lyrisch, voller Leben und total authentisch.Susan Fletcher wurde 1979 in Birmingham geboren. Ihr Debütroman "Eve Green" wurde 2004 mit dem rennomierten "Whitbread First Novel Award" ausgezeichnet.

NAPSTER EXKLUSIVITÄT 4 WOCHENEin fesselnder, atmosphärischer Pageturner um eine unerschrockene junge Frau, die ihrer Zeit weit voraus ist. Im Sommer 1914 wird die junge Botanikerin Clara Waterfield von London nach Gloucestershire gerufen: Sie soll auf einem Landsitz namens Shadowbrook den Aufbau eines Gewächshauses mit exotischen Pflanzen betreuen. Der Garten ist überwältigend, üppige Hortensien und Rosen drängen sich um gepflegte Rasenflächen, alles scheint vor Leben zu sprühen. Doch das alte Wohnhaus wirkt seltsam abweisend, die meisten Räume stehen leer oder sind verschlossen, der Eigentümer Mr. Fox ist viel auf Reisen. Haushälterin und Dienstmädchen wirken verängstigt – denn nachts scheint es im Haus zu spuken...Susan Fletcher lebt in Stratford-upon-Avon. Sie hat mehrere Romane geschrieben, gleich für ihren ersten, Eve Green, erhielt sie 2004 den Whitbread First Novel Award. Auf Deutsch erschien neben Eve Green 2007 ihr Roman Austernfischer.rnÜbersetzt von Marieke Heimburger.

From the acclaimed author of Eve Green (a Richard & Judy pick) and Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew, a compelling, wonderful historical gothic novel about lies, love and ghosts set against the backdrop of a Britain on the cusp of the First World War.

From the Whitbread Award-winning author of "Eve Green" comes this lyrical novel that probes two sisters struggle with envy, loneliness, and love--an emotion they crave and simultaneously fear, but ultimately recognize it as the greatest force of all.

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. Tales of the new arrival - his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair - are quick to find the warden's wife. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him - how he sets his easel amongst the trees, the irises and the fields of wheat, and paints in the heat of the day. Jeanne knows the rules; she knows not to approach the patients at Saint-Paul. But this man - paint-smelling, dirty, troubled and intense - is, she thinks, worth talking to. So ignoring her husband's wishes, the dangers and despite the word mad, Jeanne climbs over the hospital wall. She will find that the painter will change all their lives.Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew is a beautiful novel about the repercussions of longing, of loneliness and of passion for life. But it's also about love - and how it alters over time.

The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers' 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...Tender, lyrical and redemptive, 'The Silver Dark Sea' is the dazzling new novel from the author of 'Eve Green' (winner of Whitbred First Novel award). It is a story about what life can give and take from us, when we least expect it - and how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all.

"Originally published under the title Corrag"--T.p. verso.

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.