In Hovering Flight (Hardcover, First novel by this author)

In Hovering Flight is a provocative and page-turning debut novel that recounts the life of bird lover, environmental activist and artist Addie Kavanagh. In the great tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf and Carol Shields, In Hovering Flight is musical and dramatic, full of myriad stories and voices. It's a novel about family and friends, and art; about illness, death, and burial; about fragile ecosystems and tenacious human relationships - all explored through characters who are inspired by the lives, and particularly the songs, of birds. It is glorious and poignant, with prose brimming with birdsong.