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The bird's child /

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ISBN 9781460750001
Author Price, Sandra Leigh author.
Title The bird's child /
Publication Sydney, NSW ::
Fourth Estate,
2015.
©2015.
Physical description 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes Formerly CIP.
Summary A novel of magic, birds, lost letters and love. Sydney, 1929: three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house in a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan, who lives under the stern rule of his rabbi uncle, but dreams his father is Houdini. Upon his hand he bears a forbidden mark - a tattoo - and has a secret ambition to be a magician. Finding an injured parrot one day on the street, Ari is unsure of how to care for it, until he meets young runaway Lily, a glimmering girl after his own abracadabra heart. together they form a magical act, but their lives take a strange twist when wild card Billy, a charming and dangerous drifter twisted by the war, can no longer harbour secret desires of his own. the Bird's Child is a feat of sleight-of-hand. Birds speak, keys appear from nowhere, boxes spill secrets and the dead talk. this is a magical, stunningly original, irresistible novel - both an achingly beautiful love story and a slowly unfurling mystery of belonging.
Genre Romance fiction
Love Stories
Fantasy fiction
Australian Fiction
Historical Fiction
Shelf Location F/PRI
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