Geraldine Brooks
“This debut novel brings 1920s Sydney to life through a fairytale lens, highlighting the city’s romance, its magic and its mystery … Price’s dream-like portrayal of a bygone Sydney – with its vaudeville shows and opium dens, lyrebirds and swagmen – establishes a unique mood that transforms the local into the exotic, making The Bird’s Child a memorable tale”
Australian Book Review
“Gritty yet enchanting … often deliciously sumptuous and erotically charged … unusual, imaginative”
Newtown Review of Books
“Skilfully written and richly imagined”
Sydney Morning Herald
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First published in Australia in 2017
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Copyright © Sandra Leigh Price 2017
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Price, Sandra Leigh, author.
The river sings / Sandra Leigh Price.
Thieves – New South Wales – Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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