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Singing Bird

Singing Bird

by RoisinMcAuley (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.45

  • Used

    Paperback 2005

    $3.45

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    Hardcover 2004

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to tie up loose ends in her old age, but Lena becomes frightened that something more threatening lies behind the call, and she sets off on a journey to Ireland, with her best friend, to find her daughter's birth parents - little knowing the extraordinary truths which she will uncover.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Headline
Published: 28 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0755308549
ISBN 13: 9780755308545

Media Reviews
?Brilliant... An astonishing first novel, assured and gripping, and I'm convinced Roisin McAuley will become a bestseller' Bernard Cornwell; ?SINGING BIRD is really well written and fast paced, with strong characterisation... I couldn?t put it down? Rosie Boycott; ?Roisin McAuley?s accomplished debut novel...fills me with admiration, plus a healthy dose of envy. She is an expert storyteller with a natural narrative voice' Carol Smith; 'Publishers have been looking for a natural successor to Maeve Binchy and in Roisin McAuley they appear to have found her... An intense novel... destined to make her Ireland's new sensation' Belfast News Letter; 'Absorbing, entertaining and poignant' Irish Times; 'A corker of a book' Belfast Telegraph; 'Strongly recommended... Her editor's claim that Roisin McAuley's writing reminds her of Maeve Binchy, is not far from the mark' Dublin Evening Herald; 'SINGING BIRD looks set to be a huge success and Roisin McAuley a woman on the threshold of a brilliant fiction career' Belfast News; 'This part-detective, part-emotional journey is intensely absorbing' Australian Women's Weekly.
Author Bio
Roisin McAuley grew up in a big family in a small town in County Tyrone in the 1950s, went to a convent boarding school, and then to Queen's University, Belfast, to study history. She joined the BBC in Northern Ireland as a newsreader and announcer, going on to become a reporter for BBC programmes such as Spotlight, Newsnight, Panorama and File on 4. She has also produced and directed television documentaries for ITV and Channel 4 and written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She lives in Reading with her husband, Richard.