Explore books by susan elderkin with our selection at. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Susan elderkin is the author of two criticallyacclaimed novels, sunset over chocolate mountains and the voices. In 2003, she was listed by granta magazine as one of britains 20 best writers under 40. Read sunset over chocolate mountains by susan elderkin available from rakuten kobo. She and ella set up a bibliography service at the school of life in london in 2008 and published the novel cure. Susan elderkin was listed by granta as one of the 20 best of young british novelists in 2003. The author of sunset over chocolate mountains and the voices, she now runs. Its all quite addictive and the authors need to think of a cure to helping us get over their book or offer an even better remedy. Susan elderkin s first novel, sunset over chocolate mountains, is excellently written, but not exactly literature anna shapiro sat 11 mar 2000 21. An imaginative first novel, the beguiling and unsettling tale of an obese englishman, a young girl, a slovakian shoemaker and an ice cream man.
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