Birdy
Kernot, Sharon2024
Book
Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are staying in a farmhouse on an old apricot orchard not far from town. It's a chance to rest and recuperate - or a way to hide further away from the world. Alice is waiting. Since Birdy, her darling daughter, disappeared forty-five years ago, she has sat in her house waiting for her to come home. Alice says Maddy reminds her of Birdy, and Maddy feels a strange connection to the long-lost girl. In the quiet not-speaking and waiting, amid the clutter of the old woman's house, Maddy and Alice slowly become friends. Until Maddy takes something that's not hers. Birdy is a tender warm-hearted verse novel about the pain of loss and shame, the beauty of words, and the healing power of small acts of kindness.
Main title:
Birdy / Sharon Kernot.
Author:
Kernot, Sharon, author
Work:
Imprint:
Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
248 pages ; 20 cm.
Audience:
Interest age level: 14-17 years old.
ISBN:
9781922790606 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1972395