num_pages: 281
description: 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. in rural Wales -- a dripping place, where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps and people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her family's dark secret -- unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. when she revisits her past something clicks open in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosie's abductor is revealed...A truly beautiful and hypnotic first novel, this is both an engaging puzzle and an enchanting work of literature.
language: English
title: Eve Green
titlecomplete: Eve Green
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Drama, Modern, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 2301
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Harper Perennial