Pushkin Press Bird Cottage Literatuur en Romans

A novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her windows, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman's decision to defy society's expectations, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world.

This novel is based on the true story of a remarkable woman\'s life-long relationship with birds. Concert violinist and poet\'s daughter Len Howard decides at forty to devote the rest to birds, defying society\'s expectations and contributing to its thinking on the natural world.