![]() ![]() (She is not to be confused with the author Susan Fletcher born in the US in 1951). The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve GreenAmy lies in. Fletcher writes Historical Mysteries and History Fiction. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green. Overall, there's an air of self-importance that's difficult to penetrate. Born January 1st, 1979 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Susan Fletcher attended the independent school Saint Martin’s School in Solihull, West Midlands, England. Largely told from the perspective of a fledgling adult reflecting on her childhood, the story feels like an extended therapy session, with narration alternating between third- and first-person, allowing a dissociation between the grown Moira and her lonely, moody adolescent self. Now she would like to make amends with her sister, but it is too late. Instead, she ignored her family and later married Ray, an artist and doting husband. ![]() The accident is made more tragic because Moira, who was away at boarding school when her sister was born, took the new addition to the family as a personal slight and never developed a relationship with her. Moira is a 27-year-old scientist whose 16-year-old sister, Amy, is in a coma, the result of a fall four years earlier. ![]() ![]() Regret and jealousy consume the overweening protagonist of this frustrating novel by the Whitbread-winning author of Eve Green ![]()
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