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,...
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...