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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Bird
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''You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.'

'Himalayas: Unknown Year

''Ten thousand strands of trouble,' is what Bird's father says, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her fourteenth year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims - not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her. In search of her own life and her own truth, she could never imagine how long and how far it would take her.

'Darwin: Present Day

'Waking in a hospital bed, Bird tries to remember what brought her here. A man whose gaze she knew to fear, a stolen car, a plastic gun, and a real bullet in her shoulder. Kindness is being offered here, so why is her instinct always to run? Strand by strand, she begins to remember . . .

'A masterful and profoundly moving novel about a girl determined to live on her own terms, no matter the cost. Bird is an unforgettable story of hope, resilience, the power of connection and the most elemental bonds.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2024 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published July 2024
      ISBN: 9780733652417

Works about this Work

Courtney Collins : Bird Emma Foster , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2024;

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel

'The lyrical second novel from the author of The Burial criss-crosses through time following one girl’s parallel lives.'

Courtney Collins Bird Maria Takolander , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3 August 2024;

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel

'Feminism and fantasy have a winning history, as demonstrated by Angela Carter’s celebrated collection of revisionary fairytales, The Bloody Chamber (1979), or the ground-breaking television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). As the latter suggests, they often meet in the YA space. Courtney Collins’ Bird, while not marketed as YA fiction, will appeal to the youthful, distinguished as it is by teenage protagonists, fast-paced storytelling and an immersive use of second-person narration.'

Ineffectual Incarnations : Temporarily Entangled Heroines Laura Woollett , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 467 2024; (p. 27)

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel
'Stories about women from disparate times and places leading parallel lives are almost a genre unto themselves. In Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a well-known literary example, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, connects the lives of three twentieth- century women (one of them Woolf herself) in an intergenerational portrait of queerness and mental illness. In Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock, a trio on the Scottish coast are linked over several centuries through themes of violence against women. In Tracey Chevalier’s The Virgin Blue, an American woman living in France noses out the story of a persecuted ancestor.' (Introduction)
Ineffectual Incarnations : Temporarily Entangled Heroines Laura Woollett , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 467 2024; (p. 27)

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel
'Stories about women from disparate times and places leading parallel lives are almost a genre unto themselves. In Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a well-known literary example, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, connects the lives of three twentieth- century women (one of them Woolf herself) in an intergenerational portrait of queerness and mental illness. In Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock, a trio on the Scottish coast are linked over several centuries through themes of violence against women. In Tracey Chevalier’s The Virgin Blue, an American woman living in France noses out the story of a persecuted ancestor.' (Introduction)
Courtney Collins Bird Maria Takolander , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3 August 2024;

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel

'Feminism and fantasy have a winning history, as demonstrated by Angela Carter’s celebrated collection of revisionary fairytales, The Bloody Chamber (1979), or the ground-breaking television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). As the latter suggests, they often meet in the YA space. Courtney Collins’ Bird, while not marketed as YA fiction, will appeal to the youthful, distinguished as it is by teenage protagonists, fast-paced storytelling and an immersive use of second-person narration.'

Courtney Collins : Bird Emma Foster , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2024;

— Review of Bird Courtney Collins , 2024 single work novel

'The lyrical second novel from the author of The Burial criss-crosses through time following one girl’s parallel lives.'

Last amended 9 May 2024 11:49:11
Settings:
  • Himalayas, South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory,
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