Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

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Their parents are perpetually away, which is a sore spot for Shenanigan, but she never feels anything less than loved by any of her in-house family members. With the help of her sisters and cousin, Shenanigan grudgingly takes on the case, but more murders, a hidden treasure and an awful lot of suspects make thing seriously complicated. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the company’s new flagship, she sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. The characters are adorable—I usually have a firm favorite, but I couldn’t pick one here because everyone in the ensemble is delightful—and the mystery kept me on the edge of my seat until the end. A 1950s setting and a main character who is a man with missing fingers/arm in Cloudstreet by Tim Winton and The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood.

She never misses an opportunity to tell readers about ways they can create habitat for wildlife and get involved in citizen science projects. He goes along with fertility treatment but remains aloof like the posh snob Perriam depicts him to be – the opening line is “Typical of Charles to decant his sperm sample into a Fortnum and Mason’s jar. But then, they are always flying about somewhere, as the title of the book, and the contents of the book, make clear.

Beth Lincoln did a really interesting thing with the Swifts’ naming system: as soon as you meet each new character, you have a general idea of who they are.Nothing in The Swifts is especially grim, as even the deaths are presented more with a dark humor than anything of particular menace, but I was surprised by the body count in this book. We got a lot of help on moving day from neighbours, one of whom built a tower of book boxes in the corner of the dining room! I skimmed this book over the course of two springs and learned that the screaming parties you may, if you are lucky, see tearing down your street are likely to be made up of one- or two-year-old birds. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.