Jane Scarlett has a lonely and sad existence living in a dingy boardinghouse room and working the button counter of a department store.
It's also a charming defence of a much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing, waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite, this ...
The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and his birds.
And for the audience that has come to know the Day-Sprague family as familiar friends, with their network of inter-marriages, spanning two countries, this Volume 7 of the series is a most welcome read.
Homing investigates the experiences of legacy migrants—later-generation diaspora Koreans who “return” to South Korea—from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States.
... naked chicks or steal money or eat cake?” Leah rubbed her hand across her face, hard. “No, I don't think he checks out naked chicks or steals money or eats cake. Charlotte, he's a frigging ghost, first of all. No corporeal body, you dig ...