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Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
4.0
I found this book secondhand and have learned over the years that, generally speaking, when a book jumps off the shelf and calls my name like this one did, I need to buy it. I hadn't heard of it before and didn't know anything about it, other than what was on the back cover. But I picked it up, nonetheless, and I'm glad I did.
This is a story about love. As I type, I'm considering this, though. The love of who? There's passionate love that rushes in and out almost as quickly. There's the love of a mother and a child. The love of a grandparent. The quiet love of a good friend. The young love an 8 year old feels for an older man that she admires. There's a comfortable love, one that's always existed and doesn't waver. There's the love of the countryside. Love is woven in and out of this story but not in the "fairytale, happily ever after type of way" so much as in the "within everything, love is there" type of way.
I really enjoyed this book. A quiet, quick read with a heart.
Spoiler
28 year old Bronwen Jones dies unexpectedly, leaving her 8 year old daughter, Evie, behind. Evie goes to live with her grandparents in Wales and she narrates the novel, both as her 8 year old self and her 29 year old self, pregnant with her first child.This is a story about love. As I type, I'm considering this, though. The love of who? There's passionate love that rushes in and out almost as quickly. There's the love of a mother and a child. The love of a grandparent. The quiet love of a good friend. The young love an 8 year old feels for an older man that she admires. There's a comfortable love, one that's always existed and doesn't waver. There's the love of the countryside. Love is woven in and out of this story but not in the "fairytale, happily ever after type of way" so much as in the "within everything, love is there" type of way.
I really enjoyed this book. A quiet, quick read with a heart.