Birdie, Ada and Jane are all lost. Life has not turned out as they planned, and all three of them are scared to ask for help, to say yes β or to say no. To take a chance on someone else. Birdie Greenwing has been at a loose end ever since her beloved twin sister and husband passed away eight years previously. Ada Kowalski thought training to become an Oncologist in England would be a dream come true. In reality she is isolated, exhausted, the professional detachment she has had to develop now threatens to take over her life.
A powerful story, thought provoking and compelling, a beauty on grief, love, family, friendship, human connections, but more importantly about life. About Ericka Waller. Ericka Waller is 38 and lives in Brighton with three daughters, too many pets and a husband. When not writing she can be found walking her dogs, reading in the bath or buying stuff off eBay. I was also lucky enough to be gifted a bonus copy of the first installment in the series The Tumbling Girl which I listened to in audiobook format last year!
The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full.
Then another body is found dead in a trunk, and a strange connection starts to emerge. The crimes will propel the unlikely duo into the shady world of illegal gambling, dog fighting and monkey kidnappings as they trace things back to a tragedy that took place fourteen years ago, leaving children dead. I only have one request, and it is pretty simple: please Bridget, we want more and more of Minnie and Albert!
What a treat these books are, I cannot recommend them enough! The writing is simply exquisite, you are transported straight to the Victorian times, you can hear the hooves of the horses and the carriages, you can smell the streets of London, feel the damp and the fog, hear the sounds of the bustling life from those times!
