Songbirds: From the author of the international bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The follow-up to the global bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds is a heart-breaking story for our times.\r\n\r\nShe walks unseen through our world.\r\nCares for our children, cleans our homes.\r\nHer voice unheard. \r\nShe has a story to tell. \r\nWill you listen? \r\n\r\nNisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petras daughter, Aliki; at night she mothers her own in Sri Lanka by the light of a phone.\r\n\r\nNishas lover is Yiannis, a poacher, who hunts the tiny songbirds as they migrate to Cyprus on their way to Africa each winter. He dreams of finding a new way of life, of marrying Nisha. \r\n\r\nWhen Nisha disappears, little Aliki insists she wouldnt simply run away; they must find her. As Petra learns to take care of Aliki herself, she comes to understand the woman she barely knew, and realises only she and Yiannis will bother to look for her. What they uncover will change them all.\r\n\r\n\r\nSet on her native Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a powerful, redemptive story of loss, of the triumph of the human spirit, and of the enduring love of a mother for her child.\r\n\r\n\r\nChristy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant. Im recommending this book to everyone I care about\r\nBenjamin Zephaniah on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\r\n\r\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo is a story of loss, love, resilience and hope. In the same school as The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Kite Runner, its impossible not to be moved by Lefteris plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too\r\nObserver, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\r\n\r\nCourageous, proactive, haunting\r\nHeather Morris, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo