Best-selling Alice Hoffman makes the impossible seem real in this tender story which cleverly interweaves the magic from an old curse with a modern love-story against a background of small town prejudice. Twig’s life has always been constrained by the family secret. As she and her mother go quietly about their business they make sure they don’t get too close to anyone in Sidwell. They have a secret to hide. Twig’s brother James has wings and at night he flies up, up into the sky. But the arrival of new neighbours changes everything. Twig becomes friends with Julia and Agate, James falls in love with Agate and everything that is hidden is uncovered. ~Andrea Reece
“I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical. She does it here once again, in Nightbird. The book is like re-entering in a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember.” Lois Lowry
“Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else” Jodi Picoult
“Hoffman knows how to tell a good story” Sunday Times
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About Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Centre, receiving an MA in creative writing.
Alice has published a total of twenty-three novels, three books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults. Four of Hoffman’s novels have been made into successful movies, including Practical Magic and Aquamarine.
