A novel inspired by Little Women, set around MANCHESTER
GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of Addressed to Greta by Fiona Sussman
13th February 2022
We are delighted to have 3 copies of Addressed to Greta by Fiona Sussman, set in New York City, London, New Zealand and Rwanda in our latest giveaway!
Words cannot express how very much I fell in love with this book (Amazon reviewer)
Winner of the NZ Booklovers Award 2021 for Best Adult Fiction
Greta’s ears started to pop. She swallowed hard and looked out of her cabin window. The plane had just broken through a clump of clouds and below was an undulating patchwork of reds and greens. It was what she’d been expecting. The ruralness. Yet also different from the image she’d held in her head. The vastness. The intense terracotta colour. The relentless blue of the sky.’ Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. No expectation, no disappointment was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It is the death of her dear friend Walter, and his unusual bequest, that finally forces Greta to escape the shackles of her safe life. Revealed in a series of letters, Walter has set Greta a challenge that leads her across the world, and so far outside her comfort zone, that she has no choice but to confront who she really is. It is in the foreignness of strangers that she finds the familiar, and in the expanse of the vista that she gains perspective. Addressed to Greta is a captivating novel about a woman learning to express her true self. A story about finding the courage to be seen, and a testament to the transformative power of friendship.
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