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Written by: Courtney Collins
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'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.'

Himalayas: Unknown Year

'Ten thousand strands of trouble', says Bird's father, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her 14th year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims – not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her. In search of her own life and her own truth, she could never imagine how long and how far it would take her.

Darwin: Present Day

Waking in a hospital bed, Bird tries to remember what brought her here. A man whose gaze she knew to fear, a stolen car, a plastic gun and a real bullet in her shoulder. Kindness is being offered here, so why is her instinct always to run? Strand by strand, she begins to remember...

©2024 Courtney Collins (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense
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Critic Reviews

'The Handmaid's Tale meets The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart ... Bird tenderly explores womanhood intergenerationally through a lens of community, hope and resilience.' (Books+Publishing)
'Reading Courtney Collins' writing is an experience akin to falling under the spell of a song. An evocative, enchanting storyteller.' (Holly Ringland, bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart)
'Collins delivers propulsive but understated storytelling, with a refreshing focus on action instead of feelings ... a gentle but deftly handled experience.' (The Saturday Paper)
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