Songbirds
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Songbirds
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Narrated by:
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Indira Varma
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George Georgiou
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Art Malik
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Lolita Chakrabarti
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By:
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Christy Lefteri
About this listen
Her courage to cross oceans.
Her hope for a better life.
Her love for a daughter, above all else.
Not all tragedies make headlines, not every voice is heard.
Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. Now she spends her days caring for someone else's daughter while her own waits for her return, half a world away.
For Petra, it is only natural to hire a domestic worker to keep her house clean and her family fed. Their lives have nothing in common, except the love they feel for their daughters.
Then one day, Nisha vanishes. No one cares about the disappearance of a foreign domestic worker, except Petra and Nisha's secret lover, Yiannis, the only connection to her daughter back in Sri Lanka.
As Petra and Yiannis desperately search for Nisha, they realise how little they knew about her. What they uncover will change them both forever.
Inspired by true stories of love and loss, hope and refuge, this evocative masterpiece from the million-copy best-selling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri, is an illuminating story of the power of the human spirit, and the enduring love of a mother for her child, that will stay with you long after you finish listening.
©2021 Christy Lefteri (P)2021 Bonnier Books UKListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"Will break your heart and open your eyes." (Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
"I've never read anything quite like Songbirds—a beautifully crafted novel." (Jodi Picoult, best-selling author of Wish You Were Here)
"This thought-provoking novel of love loss and redemption is thoroughly sublime." (Caroline Montague)
"...broke my heart and kept me turning the pages of her gorgeous novel well into the night." (Alka Joshi, NYT best-selling author of The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur)
"Christy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant." (Benjamin Zephaniah on The Beekeeper of Aleppo)
"...it's impossible not to be moved by Lefteri's plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too." (Observer, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo)
"Courageous, proactive, haunting." (Heather Morris, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo)
The unseen
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A Moving Book...
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Flawless in every regard
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Excellent
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I chose this audio book after having been deeply moved by "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" which I listened to some time ago. This novel is just as good and continues the theme of the plight of refugees in a way that provides the listener with a greater understanding of the hardship endured by those who have little choice but to leave their countries to seek safety elsewhere. The hostility, cruelty and utter disregard they face on the way is shocking and shameful.
So I recommend this book. It is engrossing, deeply moving and educational. It is also very well narrated and has the bonus of a chapter read by the author at the the end in which she explains her motivation for writing the book, followed by a chapter from The Beekeeper of Aleppo, read by Art Malik.
Beautiful, deeply moving, educational story.
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