{"product_id":"9781460704202_the-birds-child","title":"The Bird's Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel of magic, birds, lost letters and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSydney, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bird's Child\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #292f33; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt\"\u003e'A wonderful, strange, glittering book, full of astounding imagination, glorious really\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e.' Edward Carey, author of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eHeap House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o \/?\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 12pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'A shimmering dream of haunted pasts. A silver girl. Abandoned boys. All the magic of the stage. \u003ci\u003eThe Bird's Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a delight.' Essie Fox, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Somnambulist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"COLOR: #1f497d\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"2\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cfont size=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBird's Child\u003c\/i\u003e  is entirely original, its familiar Sydney settings set asparkle and rendered dreamlike by  Sandra Leigh Price's lyrical and lovely writing. This is a magical fable that penetrates to deep emotional truths.'  Geraldine Brooks\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e'This debut novel brings 1920s Sydney to life through a fairytale lens, highlighting the city's romance, its magic and its mystery ... It is the Australian setting that sets this quirky historical romance apart from others of its genre.  Price's dream-like portrayal of a bygone Sydney - with its vaudeville shows and opium dens, lyrebirds and swagmen - establishes a unique mood that transforms the local into the exotic, making \u003cem\u003eThe Bird's Child\u003c\/em\u003e a memorable tale.'  \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003eGritty yet enchanting ... often deliciously sumptuous and erotically charged ... unusual, imaginative'  \u003cem\u003eNewtown Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'S\u003cspan style=\"WIDOWS: 1; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; DISPLAY: inline !important; FONT: 14px\/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"\u003ekilfully written and richly imagined' \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandra Leigh Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46920350335125,"sku":"9781460704202","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460704202_80728d4b-4ee2-47f6-9ef7-8a6224517fa1.jpg?v=1776889813","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460704202_the-birds-child","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}