![]() ![]() "I think it must be hard for any writer to create a protagonist who has no autobiographical elements," she noted, adding: "Eve is certainly not me. In an interview posted on the HarperCollins UK ReadingGroups Web site, Fletcher discussed the characteristics she shares with her fictional protagonist. When Eve becomes pregnant she is forced to look at her own childhood and seek out the keys to her identity. ![]() Though Eve was raised by her grandparents on their farm in Wales, she was considered a troublemaker by some of the locals who had known her father and his reputation. Susan Fletcher's award-winning first novel, Eve Green, tells the story of a troubled young woman who never knew her father and whose mother killed herself when Eve was just a child. Whitbread First Novel Award, 2004, and Betty Trask Prize, 2005, both for Eve Green. Agent-Curtis Brown Group Ltd., Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4SP, England. Education: Studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. ![]()
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