Why Birds Sing

Name: Why Birds Sing
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Nina Berkhout
ISBN: 9781666543384

Author: Nina Berkhout

Narrator: Madeleine Lambert

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 10/06/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction, Women

Synopsis

When opera singer Dawn Woodward has an onstage flameout, all she wants is to be left alone. She’s soon faced with other complications the day her husband announces her estranged brother-in-law, Tariq, is undergoing cancer treatment and moving in, his temperamental parrot in tow. To make matters worse, though she can’t whistle herself, she has been tasked with teaching arias to an outspoken group of devoted siffleurs who call themselves the Warblers. Eventually, Tariq and his bird join the class, and Dawn forms unexpected friendships with her new companions. But when her marriage shows signs of trouble and Tariq’s health declines, she begins questioning her foundations, including the career that she has worked so hard to build and the true nature of love and song.

About Nina Berkhout

Nina Berkhout is the author of two previous novels: The Mosaic, which was nominated for the White Pine Award and the Ottawa Book Awards and named an Indigo Best Teen Book, and The Gallery of Lost Species, an Indigo and Kobo Best Book and a Harper's Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel. She is also the author of five poetry collections, including Elseworlds, which won the Archibald Lampman Award. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, she now lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

About Madeleine Lambert

Madeleine Lambert is an Earphones Award winning narrator who graduated with honors from Duke University with majors in theater studies and English and who received her MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. In addition to her voiceover work, she has performed on stage in Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol, Anne Boleyn, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martha☀

A friend gave this book to me for Christmas, saying that the main character reminded her of me. She thought that the book would offer me insight for my current crossroads and the parrot would hold my interest through the tough parts (I have an absolute love for birds.) And so I delved in, trying to s......more

Goodreads review by Milana

“Things don’t ever turn out the way you think they will.” - Why Birds Sing by Nina Berkhout Some books you feel as if you’re observing while others you feel detached from but there’s always that one book that you feel as if you’re sitting across from the characters having a drink listening to them te......more

Goodreads review by Mary

What a perfect book!!l......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Why Birds Sing is just a lovely life affirming novel that needs to be read especially when you feel everything is not going your way. It might just give you cause to reflex that all our journeys have unexpected twists and turns that may lead to a better place. Dawn is an opera singer who has an embar......more

Goodreads review by Adeeb

Thanks to the publisher for providing me an ARC in exchange for an honest review on Netgalley. Why Birds Sing was a very surprising book. I had never heard of it from before and I was drawn by the cover and description. This book is written in first-person-POV from the perspective of our main characte......more