{"product_id":"all-the-little-bird-hearts-a-novel","title":"All the Little Bird-Hearts: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e All the Little Bird-Hearts: A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2023-12-05\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic mother as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly, now on the cusp of leaving home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInto this carefully ordered world step Vita and Rollo, a couple who move in next door, disarm Sunday with their glamor and charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in Sunday's book. Soon they are in and out of each others' homes, and Sunday feels loved and accepted like never before. But beneath Vita and Rollo's polish lies something else, something darker. For Sunday has precisely what Vita has always wanted for a daughter of her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn astute and poignant psychological portrait of a woman coming to terms with what love means, and why discovering our own unique gifts can save us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643756615\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53356231950643,"sku":"9781643756615","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9781643756615.jpg?v=1778843267","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/all-the-little-bird-hearts-a-novel","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}