![]() ![]() She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Category: Fiction Fiction ISBN: 0007250444. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green Amy lies in a coma. A novel about trust, loss and loneliness, 'Oystercatchers' is a love story with a profound darkness at its core. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: she's been a cruel sister, and it is this cruelty that has led them both here, to this hospital bed. Her second novel, Oystercatchers, was published in 2007, and her third. Moira knows this: that she's been a poor daughter, and a deceptive wife. Eve Green won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and the 2005 Betty Trask Prize. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood to her savagery at boarding school to the wild, bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life. Oystercatchers From the author of the award-winning Eve Green, Oystercatchers is a heart-rending tale about the bonds of sisterhood and one womans. ![]() The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning 'Eve Green' Amy lies in a coma. ![]()
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