Лучшие произведения Сьюзан Флетчер

Почти сто лет назад официально закончилось Средневековье, но на Британских островах по-прежнему казнят обвиненных в колдовстве. У Корраг так погибла сначала бабушка, а потом и мать. Теперь и сама юная знахарка брошена в тюрьму, а на городской площади неспешно строится эшафот. Для суеверных обывателей она проклятая ведьма, для узурпатора Вильгельма Оранского — свидетельница преступления, совершенного его вассалами в горах Шотландии. Но кем она станет для ирландского священника, которого привела в эту северную глушь секретная миссия?

Однажды в далёком Средневековье король Норвегии решил подарить королю Англии белую медведицу. Ей предстояло отправиться в долгий путь по морю, но, запертая в клетке, она не подпускала к себе никого из матросов, не хотела есть и пить, рычала и скалилась, стоило кому-то приблизиться. И только мальчик Артур сумел успокоить её своими песнями. Вместе с медведицей он отправился в Лондон и со временем понял, как тоскливо ей, рождённой плавать в бурных водах, в тесной клетке на ладье. Желание оказаться на воле так ему знакомо... Смогут ли они когда-нибудь снова стать свободными?

June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook. Yet, on arrival, Clara hears rumours: something is wrong with this quiet, wisteria-covered house. Its gardens are filled with foxgloves, hydrangea and roses; it has lily-ponds, a croquet lawn - and the marvellous new glasshouse awaits her. But the house itself feels unloved. Its rooms are shuttered, or empty. The owner is mostly absent; the housekeeper and maids seem afraid. And soon, Clara understands their fear:…

Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer’s evening, there’s an accident at Babbington Hall—the adult residence where she lives—so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she, in fact, living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life, with all its passions and regrets; she must confront her own bloody secret—and, at last, forgive herself. Above all, Florrie learns, through the…

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. Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life 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. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child, and when she revisits her past…

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. Tales of the new arrival - his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair - are quick to find the warden's wife. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him - how he sets his easel amongst the trees, the irises and the fields of wheat, and paints in the heat of the day. Jeanne knows the rules; she knows not to approach…