Description
Starling can trap a rabbit, cook a meal from a hedge and hear a bailiff coming from a mile off. All she has ever known is a nomadic existence, traveling in a converted van with Mar, her strong-willed mother.
But Mar has cut them off from their community, and this winter they're stuck in deep mud in a wood, with no fuel, no money and no friends. One morning, without explanation, Mar leaves and doesn't come back.
Utterly alone, Starling must learn to survive without her mother and build a life on her own terms. An offer to stay with an old friend draws her into a more conventional way of living - but can rootless Starling ever find a place where she truly belongs?
Author: Sarah Jane Butler
Publisher: Fairlight Books
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781914148255
ISBN10: 1914148258
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Nature & the Environment
About the Author
Sarah Jane Butler grew up on the edge of Southborough Common in Kent. She studied languages at university and spent time living in France and Spain. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and her story The Swimmer was included in Best British Short Stories 2011. She has twice won the 26 Project Writer's Award, most recently in 2021 for her poem Flow, and has performed her work in pubs, a festival tent and a disused light vessel. Starling is her debut novel. As well as writing fiction, she is a copywriter and communications consultant.