{"product_id":"the-birds-child","title":"The Bird's Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel of magic, birds, lost letters and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSydney, 1929: three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house in a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan, who lives under the stern rule of his rabbi uncle, but dreams his father is Houdini. Upon his hand he bears a forbidden mark - a tattoo - and has a secret ambition to be a magician. Finding an injured parrot one day on the street, Ari is unsure of how to care for it, until he meets young runaway Lily, a glimmering girl after his own abracadabra heart. Together they form a magical act, but their lives take a strange twist when wild card Billy, a charming and dangerous drifter twisted by the war, can no longer harbour secret desires of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bird's Child is a feat of sleight-of-hand. Birds speak, keys appear from nowhere, boxes spill secrets and the dead talk. this is a magical, stunningly original, irresistible novel - both an achingly beautiful love story and a slowly unfurling mystery of belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandra Leigh Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43758672707753,"sku":"9781460750001","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781460750001.jpg?v=1710370757","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-birds-child","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}