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The Flight of Birds by Alan Howard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Flight of Birds about?
Kate and her father go to live close to her mother's grave near her childhood home A vagabond tells her a tale of this place: of a massacre in religion's name, of rape, torture and murder; a tale that comes alive in the telling as its victims rise up to engulf Kate as she finds herself the unwilling medium through which they will have their revenge. When her mother dies, 18-year-old Kate and her father bury her in a place beloved of her childhood and go to live in a cottage close by. Kate meets a one-eyed vagabond who tells her the Elizabethan history of the neighbouring great house: of a massacre in the name of religion, of imprisonment, rape, torture and murder. It is a tale that comes alive in the telling as its victims rise up in vengeance to engulf Kate and all around her. Kate finds herself the unwilling medium through which they will have their revenge upon the descendants of the perpetrators of their suffering. This is the tale of the haunting, in modern times, of a girl by a ghost exactly resembling her own dead mother. Encountering this ghost imprisoned in the East wing of the Great House, a wing long-since rebuilt after a fire in Elizabethan times, Kate is gradually comp
Who reads The Flight of Birds?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alan Howard
- Publisher
- Raven's Quill Ltd
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780955548628
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories