{"product_id":"songbirds","title":"Songbirds","description":"Product Description      \nThe powerful Sunday Times bestseller.\n\n\n\n\n'Will break your heart and open your eyes' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\n\n\n\n'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Small Great Things\n\n\n\nShe walks unseen through our world.\n\nCares for our children, cleans our homes.\n\nHer voice unheard.\n\nWill you listen to her story?\n\n\nNisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra's daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone.\n\nOne day, Nisha vanishes. No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra, and Nisha's lover, Yiannis.\n\nAs they set out to search for her, they realise how little they knew about Nisha. What they uncover will change them both forever.\n\nSet in her native Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a triumphant follow up to\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo, which\nilluminates the power of the human spirit, and the enduring love of a mother for her child.\n\n\nPraise for Christy Lefteri:\n\n'This\n thought-provoking novel of love loss and redemption is thoroughly\n sublime.' Caroline Montague\n\n'Lefteri is an\nastonishing weaver of stories.' Daljit Nagra\n\n' . . .\nbroke my heart and kept me turning the pages of her\ngorgeous novel well into the night.' Alka Joshi, NYT-bestselling author of\nThe Henna Artist and\nThe Secret Keeper of Jaipur\n\n'Christy Lefteri has crafted a\nbeautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant.' Benjamin Zephaniah on\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\n\n' . . . it's\nimpossible not to be moved by Lefteri's plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too.'\nObserver, on\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\n'Courageous, proactive, haunting.' Heather Morris, on\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo\n      Review      \nChristy Lefteri is a courageous, provocative, haunting writer.\nSongbirds is a beautiful novel. It will break your heart and open your eyes. ―\nHeather Morris\n\nI've never read anything quite like\nSongbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class. ―\nJodi Picoult\n\nChristy Lefteri's painfully beautiful story about a voiceless immigrant, Nisha, whose selfless courage touches the lives of those around her, moved me from the first page to the last. This thought-provoking novel of love loss and redemption is thoroughly sublime ―\nCaroline Montague\n\nLefteri is an astonishing weaver of stories that speak to the world with compassion. She is imaginatively daring as she is socially responsible in a compelling narrative from start to end and that kept me on the edge. ―\nDaljit Nagra\n\nLike the vulnerable songbirds trapped in mist nets, Lefteri's characters - women who leave foreign lands to work abroad and send money back home - broke my heart and kept me turning the pages of her gorgeous novel well into the night. ―\nAlka Joshi, NYT-bestselling author of THE HENNA ARTIST and THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR\n\nChristy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant. I'm recommending this book to everyone I care about. So, I'm recommending this book to you ―\nBenjamin Zephaniah on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\n\nThe Beekeeper of Aleppo is a story of loss, love, resilience and hope. In the same school as the\nTattooist of Auschwitz and\nThe Kite Runner, it's impossible not to be moved by Lefteri's plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too ―\nThe Observer, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\nA hugely important novel for our times, this is a beautifully written and poignant tale of the best and worst of humanity ―\nSun, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\nPowerful, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted . . . unforgettable ―\nChoice Magazine, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\nCourageous, proactive, haunting ―\nHeather Morris, on The Beekeeper of Aleppo\n\n\nRemarkable and memorable ―\nWoman \u0026amp; Home\n\nA\npowerful tale ―\nThe Independent\n\nA\npoignant story of what it means to migrate in search of freedom ―\nCosmo","brand":"Manilla Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39919736291413,"sku":"9781838773762N","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/2f9db611-f4d1-4bd0-8960-cbe6d85f014f.jpg?v=1644404754","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/songbirds","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}