Anna Smaill

Cover image for Bird Life by Anna Smail

Bird Life by Anna Smaill: A beautiful novel of madness and grief

I remember choosing not to read New Zealand writer Anna Smaill’s Man Booker longlisted debut The Chimes thinking it sounded a little too fantastical for me, although I may well overcome that objection having read her new novel, Bird Life. Set in Tokyo, it’s the story of two women, both suffering terrible loss, each seeing

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