Blog Tour Review and Giveaway, The Night in Question

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE NIGHT IN QUESTION by Susan Fletcher Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE NIGHT IN QUESTION

Author: Susan Fletcher

Pub. Date: April 2, 2024

Publisher: Union Square Co.

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 384

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/THE-NIGHT-IN-QUESTION

 

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness.

Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can’t be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer’s evening, there’s an accident at Babbington Hall—the adult residence where she lives—so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she, in fact, living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life, with all its passions and regrets; she must confront her own bloody secret—and, at last, forgive herself.  Above all, Florrie learns, through the help of her new friend, Stanhope, that you’re never too old to have the life you’ve always dreamed of. When it comes to love, it’s never too late.

Readers of moving fiction about late-in-life second chances such as Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will love this un-putdownable book.

 

My Review

How often is the protagonist not young?  Not only is Florrie 87 but she gets around in a wheelchair and lets nothing stop her.  I love reading about characters that are outside of the norm.  Florrie with is likable, rootable and a deep character that I wanted to know more about.  She jumped off the page and grabbed me.  And I just might need to strive to be her when I am older.

After a resident at Florrie’s new home, Babbington Hall, a residence facility, is found dead, she starts to question if the death was an accident.  She goes on a journey to uncover the truth and in the process reflects on her own life.  A heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking story about second chances and how there is still learning and growing at every age.

Not only is Florrie determined to uncover the secrets of her new home and community, she is harboring a secret of her own.  Such wonderful characters and an easy to read style, I didn’t want to put this one down.

This is billed as a mystery, but it is so much more.  There is a crime and an amateur sleuth at the heart of this one, but the wit and spunk of Florrie is what kept me reading.  The great cast of characters and Florries second chance made the novel for me.

I need to shout about this one from the rooftops so everyone knows about this gem of a book.

 

About Susan Fletcher:

Susan Fletcher is a British novelist. She was born in Birmingham and studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Eve Green, won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award, the Authors’ Club award, and the Betty Trask Prize; it was also picked for Channel 4’s (UK) Richard and Judy Summer Reading list. Subsequent novels have been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys award, the Writers’ Guild fiction award, and longlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Her novel Witch Light won the Saint-Maur en Poche award 2013 in France. Fletcher is the current Fellow at the University of Worcester as part of the Royal Literary Fund’s fellowship scheme.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of THE NIGHT IN QUESTION, US Only.

Ends April 9th, midnight EST.

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