Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher - ISBN: 9780349007632
Paperback
A forbidden connection with a mad painter ignites passion and changes lives.

Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    30 May 2017

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349007632
ISBN-10:0349007632
Author:Susan Fletcher
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:30 May 2017
Weight:220g
Dimensions:22mm x 128mm x 196mm
A-Format
Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher - ISBN: 9780349007632
128 × 196 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

A touching and finely written novel

A touching and finely written novel * Sunday Times *
A tender, passionate tale of reverie and redemption * Express *
Seductive … [a] lushly written, powerfully charged novel that imagines a friendship between a middle-aged warden’s wife and Vincent Van Gogh * Metro *
Fletcher explores the concept of ‘madness’ with compassion, and her beautiful, sensuous writing makes you see [van Gogh’s] paintings with a fresh eye * Saga *
An exquisitely written portrait of a marriage. I loved it * Woman & Home *
This is a novel about the power of seeing and being seen, the transcendence of everyday beauty, commonplace joys. Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart * Guardian *
Fletcher has always attracted praise for the lyricism of her prose … here she finds a new restraint that not only intensifies the beauty of her language but feels truer and more profound * Guardian *

About The Author

Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award), Oystercatchers and Witch Light - and most recently, the much-lauded Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew.

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