The Sleep of Birds

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Jake is older, talented, exciting. But when Sigrid is isolated with him in a remote cottage on the moors, he becomes as dangerous and frightening as the landscape.

Flying from Jake's violence, Sigrid takes refuge with friends in St Ives and begins to find peace and a new love. But Jake explodes again into this safe life, making her face her conflicting and powerful feelings for him, and the dark secrets of her childhood. Across the rugged coastline of Cornwall and the bleak and beautiful spaces of Dartmoor, Jake and Sigrid play out their desperate roles, where the cycle of damage must be broken before the future can emerge.

Reviews

This is a haunting, beautifully written novel which forces us to consider whether we ever really escape the past. The...author captures the power and vulnerability that make her complex central characters so convincing. - Western Morning News

This is a fascinating book with flesh and bone characters, exploring real-life problems - West Briton

Author Bio

Sara MacDonald was born in Yorkshire and travelled extensively as a Forces child. She lives in a cottage near St Ives with two cats and a mongrel.