The Sun Over The Mountains
By Suzie Fletcher

Suzie Fletcher is someone you may have heard of. She is one of the crafters in The Repair Shop who works with various materials, including leather, velum etc. For her, life wasn’t always like that. Here, she tells her story in The Summer over the Mountains. There’s much to discover. Check out the blurb and my review below.

Blurb

A memoir of hope, healing and restoration, from star of TV’s The Repair Shop, Suzie Fletcher.

Suzie Fletcher is the warm and friendly face on TV’s The Repair Shop that viewers look forward to watching every week as the resident leather expert – a craft she has honed over four decades and was born out of her love of horses. But while she tends to be the one repairing and offering a gentle kindness to others, Suzie has also been in a process of change, reflection, and healing.

In her first book Suzie looks back over her life – which moves from England to Colorado and back again – and the places, people and experiences that have shaped the person she is today. We’ll hear for the first time, how Suzie has overcome some of life’s most difficult challenges, from complicated relationships to grief.

A self-confessed free spirit with a deep connection to nature, Suzie’s exceptional warmth and zest for life shine through on every page, making The Sun Over the Mountains a truly inspiring read that will resonate with anyone who has faced uncertainty but has the courage and power within them to overcome it.

Review

Suzie Fletcher’s autobiography is fascinating. She has led a fascinating life, living in both Colorado and England. Whilst watching her on The Repair Shop, something of both shows through as she talks and works away on repairing people’s “treasures”, I find anyway. It’s now interesting to find out more about her life as there’s often something that intrigues on that tv programme that there’s more than repairing objects that’s a bit telling that she’s perhaps lived quiet some life. I wasn’t wrong, when reading about her life and quiet reflections on it all.

Readers discover her love of horses and where that comes from. Compellingly she also lets readers know about more challenging times in her life and how complex it has been for her. In many ways the writing is emotional and feels raw and real, especially when it comes to sharing how her relationship with this guy really was and it isn’t pretty. It’s as far removed from some rom-com as it gets.

The book, perhaps gives people hope as she is testament to some people who go through the toughest of times can be strong, resilient and come out the other-side being successful in career choices and still have a positive zest for life and an advocate, in a way in how connecting with nature can be restorative and healing.