Arenz Ewald - Tasting Sunlight The Uplifting Exquisite Breakout Bestseller - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 and then months as an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up connecting to each other reconnecting with themselves and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land. Achingly beautiful profound invigorating and uplifting Tasting Sunlight is a story of friendship across generations of love and acceptance of the power of nature to heal and transform and the goodness that surrounds us if only we take time to see it ______________ A subtle beautiful luminous novel about the healing powers of nature friendship and acceptance Saga magazine Written with beautiful simplicity this sensitive and profound story examines how we heal and help each other delivered with deep insight and huge heart Doug Johnstone A sensory joy; a novel of quiet understated beauty Original luminous and intense it's a mesmerising read Iona Gray A stupendous debut. A triumph. Don't miss it Louisa Treger A truly special book. Powerful lyrical and profoundly affecting Ewald Arenz spins a tale of friendship restoration and possibility with utmost heart and care. I loved it! Miranda Dickinson An exquisitely written heart - warming story the smells tastes sounds and rhythms of nature are described with sensuous clarity so you feel as if you are there picking potatoes from the earth tending the bees and tasting the pears. Just beautiful! Gill Paul Told with honesty and a clear - sighted understanding of human nature I loved it Michael J. Malone The simple minutiae of everyday life becomes intricate and essential: rituals that connect one woman to the land and her heritage and show a lost younger one a different truth. Moving and heart - wrenching but ultimately uplifting Carol Lovekin Breathtakingly beautiful Louise Beech A simply wonderful heartwarming read Fiona Sharp Bookseller What readers are saying A story that breaks your heart and fills it too Bookly Matters The perfect story for our time uplifting healing and truly exceptional Random Things through My Letterbox Poignantly gently and profoundly evocative Trip Fiction Beautiful at times brutal and honest I absolutely loved it Claire Clarke A special beautiful novel Caf Thinking An absolute joy Danielle Louise It touched my soul Live & Deadly
Title: Tasting Sunlight The Uplifting Exquisite Breakout Bestseller
Author(s): Arenz Ewald
Publisher: Orenda Books
Barcode: 9781914585142
Pages: 276 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2022
Category: Fiction In Translation