The Sun Over the Mountains

A Story of Hope, Healing and Restoration

By: Suzie Fletcher

Narrated by: Sarah Durham, Steve Fletcher, Suzie Fletcher

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Featuring Suzie and her brother Steve in conversation - exclusive to the audiobook!

©2023 Suzie Fletcher (P)2023 Octopus Publishing Group Ltd

Courage to share different truths

Excellent description of the impacts of fracking on communities and the environment. Details helped explain how fracking is destructive to the entire planet

Great book...❤️✌️

I started watching the repair shop and loved Susie Fletcher from the start. when I found out she had a book out there I started reading it and I could connect with herright away. she went through a lot in her marriage,but she's a strong, strong woman and she stuck it out. she didn't give up. you could tell she loved her husband very much, and went through a lot of abuse from him. but she knew deep down he was hurting also and she was his punching bag mentally. I watched the show where she repaired the rocking horse, and when she uncovered the name underneath the saddle, I cried with her. it was so touching that her brother came over and held her. this story touched my soul...❤️

Worth your time

Such a vulnerable book.
I am very impressed with the openness.
I am grateful have had the opportunity to listen and highly recommend this book.

Achieving strength

An interesting story of surviving trauma binding. Susie’s steadfast sense of hope and achievement of strength are remarkable and inspiring. I appreciate her honest self-reflection. I’m also so grateful she didn’t sanctify the primary source of her fear and pain upon his untimely death. Although, when thinking of him, I am tempted to add—what goes around comes around.

How Suzie coped with the way she was treated by her husband and how just brave she was with all that had happened to o her .

I loved the whole book it was wonderful and was very inspiring to me. I am a big fan of hers I love her on the repair shop, she is so talented with what she does and how she does it. Everything she restores is so beautiful. She is beautiful.

Honest, tender, moving

About two months ago, my husband and I
discovered The Repair Shop on YouTube—we live in the States, and it’s a British show. It’s absolutely magical—people bring old, broken, worn-out objects that have deep emotional significance to them for a team of experts to repair, and tell the story of why the object matters to them. Perhaps it is the only tangible link to a dead ancestor, or a beloved parent or grandparent. The process of repair is fascinating and the reunion with the object is often deeply moving to witness. Suzie is one of these experts. She does leather objects, and her brother Steve is the resident horologist. You get to know and care about the experts as well, and when I heard Suzie had written a book, knowing that she had spent many years in the States, and had been widowed, I was interested in her experiences. Her story is deeply compelling and refreshingly honest, because it is a story of a deeply troubled relationship, and she deals honestly with the abuse, the control, and the fear—but also with the genuine love that held her to her husband’s side as he was dying of cancer. It’s beautifully told, and extremely powerful.

Set in Colorado, for the most part, the harshness and the majesty of living in rural Eastern Colorado—the terrible winters, the gasping hot summers, but also the beauty of spring and fall come to life, and she paints a chilling picture of the environmental disaster that ensued when fracking began all around their farm.

It’s a fascinating autobiography, and I recommend it highly just for general interest, but it will be of particular interest to those in coercive or abusive relationships. She has no answers to give, but she tells her story so honestly, it may give hope and encouragement where it is needed.

An inspirational story

What a strong woman Suzie is. I loved hearing about her relationship with her animals. You could understand her struggles of being in an abusive relationship without it being the main focus of the story. A good listen for those needing courage.