The eponymous heroine of Fletcher’s debut, soon to give birth to her first child, laments her reckless actions after the disappearance of a girl in her village, while Moira Stone in Oystercatchers, sitting at the bedside of her comatose sister, hopes to atone for having spent her life wishing her younger sibling harm.Īlthough Eve Green and Moira Stone share a similar need to confess, they are distinct in character. These novels, confessional in form, are necessary expiations, excavations of years of accumulated remorse. Both Eve Green (2004) and Oystercatchers (2007) are based around the reminiscence of narrators who wish to share the shame they feel for the wrong they have done in their lives. Her characters are at the mercy of the wanton malice of chance, yet they are also imprisoned within their own failings, seeking release. Susan Fletcher’s themes are manifold: she deals with loss, loneliness, guilt and the physic damage caused by the burden of keeping secrets.
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