An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middleaged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal the sublime, achingly beautiful debut that everyone is talking about Such a timely tale hopeful and poignant and lyrically told. A truly compassionate and heartening book Culturefly Poetic in places and, as the title suggests, highly sensory a genuinely hopeful and openhearted novel Irish Times Tasting Sunlightreminded me of reading Sally RooneysNormal People. It takes a writer of immeasurable talent to make you feel that intensely, merely by evoking ripening late summer fruit and the sound of rain on dusty groundElizabeth Haynes Powerful, original and engaging. I loved itSusie Boyt Tasting Sunlight is a BBC World Service WORLD BOOK CLUB PICK Over 600,000 copies sold in GermanyTHREE YEARS on the German Bestseller List Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she is being treated for anorexia. Shes furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs singlehandedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people. From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isnt like other adults she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked. That night becomes weeks and then months, as an unlikely friendship develops and these two...

Binding: Paperback;0 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 30

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