'Will break your heart and open your eyes' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel.' Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Wish You Were Here.
Christy Lefteri is a courageous, provocative, haunting writer. Songbirds is a beautiful novel. It will break your heart and open your eyes.
I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.
Christy Lefteri's painfully beautiful story about a voiceless immigrant, Nisha, whose selfless courage touches the lives of those around her, moved me from the first page to the last. This thought-provoking novel of love loss and redemption is thoroughly sublime
Lefteri is an astonishing weaver of stories that speak to the world with compassion. She is imaginatively daring as she is socially responsible in a compelling narrative from start to end and that kept me on the edge.
Like the vulnerable songbirds trapped in mist nets, Lefteri's characters - women who leave foreign lands to work abroad and send money back home - broke my heart and kept me turning the pages of her gorgeous novel well into the night.
Christy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant. I'm recommending this book to everyone I care about. So, I'm recommending this book to you
The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a story of loss, love, resilience and hope. In the same school as the
Tattooist of Auschwitz and
The Kite Runner, it's impossible not to be moved by Lefteri's plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too
A hugely important novel for our times, this is a beautifully written and poignant tale of the best and worst of humanity
Powerful, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted . . . unforgettable
Courageous, proactive, haunting
Remarkable and memorable
A
powerful tale
A
poignant story of what it means to migrate in search of freedom
Beautiful novel explores the hardships faced by migrants
Christy Lefteri's
timely second novel
packs the same Trojan horse punch as her bestselling
The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
Symbolic descriptions of the island's landscape and wildlife provide
poignant lyrical moments, while the migrant community are sensitively given a voice and the injustices they face uncovered. A
moving and important read
An
emotional yet inherently human story that really makes you feel for its characters
Lyrical writing and
compassion for domestic workers who cross the world in search of freedom only to find themselves trapped.
This
moving read is inspired by real-life stories of domestic workers in Cyprus.
Deftly explores themes of freedom, motherhood, community and identity
Written from the heart, influenced by true events...A book
powerful in its message: to see others as we see ourselves
Exquisite writing and
moving story...a
powerful tale
A remarkable novel
One of the most remarkable and memorable novels of the past year.
Brought up in London, Christy Lefteri is the child of Cypriot refugees. Her novel,
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, is an international bestseller, selling well over a million copies worldwide and published in over 40 countries.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo won The Aspen Literary Prize
, runner up for The Dayton Literary Prize
and won the Prix de l'Union Interalliée for Best Foreign novel in France. It is currently being performed as a play, adapted by
Nesrin Alrefaai, and
Matthew Spangler for The Nottingham Playhouse, and touring the UK.
Songbirds, her follow up novel, was a
Sunday Times and international bestseller.