Tabitha Bird’s eye view
Tabitha Bird greets us at the door of her 80-plus-year-old Queenslander home with her Chihuahua in her arms. “She’s always by my side,” she says. “Her name is Lion because she has such a big heart and she’s been my protector from the get-go. She spends so much time with me, she thinks she’s an author, too.”
Tabitha burst onto the Australian literary landscape in 2019, with , a novel that took out the following year’s Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. In it, she explores the world of Willa, who, is another pure delight based on the premise of a most unusual shop that travels the world popping up wherever it’s needed to provide vintage gifts to repair broken dreams and phones that allow grieving people to contact their lost loved ones.
