Tasting Sunlight - The breakout bestseller that everyone is talking about (Arenz Ewald)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged 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 open-hearted novel´ Irish Times `Tasting Sunlight reminded me of reading Sally Rooney''s Normal 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 ground´ Elizabeth Haynes `Powerful, original and engaging. I loved it´ Susie Boyt**Tasting Sunlight is a BBC World Service WORLD BOOK CLUB PICK****Over 600,000 copies sold in Germany****THREE YEARS on the German Bestseller List** _________________ Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she is being treated for anorexia. She''s 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 single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people. From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn''t 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 an
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