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I want to find out how they behave when they're free. 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.

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Shortlisted for the Society of Authors Vondel Prize 'I tend my herd and flock by day so I have to read into the night; I cannot put it down' Rosamund Young, author of The Secret of Life of Cows 'Truly original... There's a sense of birdlike lightness and agility about this episodic, elliptical novel' Daily Mail 'The author's fluid, seemingly weightless prose is perfectly matched to the birds she describes... This beautiful creation will be a source of great pleasure for birders and readers alike' Country Life 'A celebration of a life spent immersed in nature' Town & Country 'Bewitching... will make you want to throw away your travel pass and move to a remote cottage... Read it to de-stress' The Lady

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Eva Meijer is a Dutch author, artist, singer, songwriter and philosopher. Her non-fiction study on animal Communication, Animal Languages, is forthcoming in English in 2019. Bird Cottage is her first novel to be translated into English, has been nominated for the BNG and Libris prizes in the Netherlands and is being translated into several languages. Eva Meijer was awarded the Halewijn Prize in 2017 for all of the books she has written so far.

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