Bird Cottage /
Meijer, Eva, 1980-
Bird Cottage / Eva Meijer ; translated by Antoinette Fawcett. - 249 pages : photograph ; 21 cm.
Translated from the Dutch. "Bird Cottage was first published as Het Vogelhuis in Amsterdam, 2016." -- Title page verso.
"Len Howard, the daughter of a famous poet, and a successful concert violinist was forty years old when she decided to devote the rest of her life to her true love: birds. She bought a small cottage in Sussex, where she wrote two international bestsellers, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived in and around her house, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving, finely crafted novel tells the story of a remarkable woman's life and loves, and of how she defied society's expectations and changed our understanding of bird behaviour. It is also a wonderful evocation of the English countryside and the joy that can come from a living, breathing relationship with the natural world around us." -- Provided by publisher.
9781782273936 178227393X
Howard, Len 1894-1973 --Fiction.
Women violinists--England--Fiction.
Birds--Fiction.
Women naturalists--Fiction.
Country life--England--Fiction.
Sussex (England)--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Bird Cottage / Eva Meijer ; translated by Antoinette Fawcett. - 249 pages : photograph ; 21 cm.
Translated from the Dutch. "Bird Cottage was first published as Het Vogelhuis in Amsterdam, 2016." -- Title page verso.
"Len Howard, the daughter of a famous poet, and a successful concert violinist was forty years old when she decided to devote the rest of her life to her true love: birds. She bought a small cottage in Sussex, where she wrote two international bestsellers, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived in and around her house, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving, finely crafted novel tells the story of a remarkable woman's life and loves, and of how she defied society's expectations and changed our understanding of bird behaviour. It is also a wonderful evocation of the English countryside and the joy that can come from a living, breathing relationship with the natural world around us." -- Provided by publisher.
9781782273936 178227393X
Howard, Len 1894-1973 --Fiction.
Women violinists--England--Fiction.
Birds--Fiction.
Women naturalists--Fiction.
Country life--England--Fiction.
Sussex (England)--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.