Audiobook7 hours
The Serendipity of Flightless Things
Written by Fiadhnait Moser
Narrated by Heather O'Neill
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
This middle grade, magical-realism novel from the author of The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel is about an Irish girl who is sent to a mysterious town in Virginia to live with her long-lost mother, and is Alice Hoffman's Nightbird meets Claire Legrand's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls! Amidst the 1971 Troubles between the Irish Republican Army and Northern Ireland, twelve-year-old Finn lives in a world of her own of fairy tales. Raised by her grandmother, Nuala, who is the village storyteller, Finn spends her days playing make-believe in the forest, weaving tall tales to tell her friend Darcy, longing to go to the island of Inis Eala to meet the swans there, and waiting for her father to return from the war. She's long since stopped believing in happy endings and miracles, preferring to believe instead in serendipity, or "happy mistakes." While Nuala revels in the safety and routine of their quiet village life, spunky Finn craves adventure . . . something that comes to her more quickly than expected. When Darcy becomes lost at sea and Nuala suddenly passes away, Finn is shipped off to the affluent town of Starlight Valley, Virginia, to live with her long-lost mother, Aoife, and half-sister, Posy-Kate. Finn is initially excited to get to know her newfound family, but she can't help but notice that things are a bit unusual. The town is encircled by thorn trees, and even stranger is Aoife's house, where the walls are covered with swan feathers and decorated with swan heads--and Aoife's shoes appear to be made out of swan bills. Finn tries to ignore the sinking feeling that something isn't right, but she starts to believe that what's happening isn't random. Instead, it's taken directly from one of her grandmother's famous folktales, The Children of Lir, where a scorned mother turns all of her children into swans. But Finn stopped believing in those stories a long time ago . . . could they actually be true?
Related to The Serendipity of Flightless Things
Related audiobooks
Wrecker Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Familiars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cottingley Secret: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Art of Letter Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Foxheart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sisters of Shadow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Invisible in a Bright Light Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Everyday Magic: The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cottage of Curiosities Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cinders and Sparrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Monstrous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Monsters of Rookhaven Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Forbidden Garden: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forest of Stars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Boneshaker Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thornlight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sparrow Sisters: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sisters of the Lost Marsh Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elizabeth and Zenobia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Windwitch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Apprentice Witch Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Patron Saint of Lost Souls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memory Collectors: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ned’s Circus of Marvels Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Jar of Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gus and the Starlight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Peculiar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Above Us Only Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Children's Fantasy & Magic For You
Warriors #2: Fire and Ice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Warriors #1: Into the Wild Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, Book 15) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire #3) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The False Prince (The Ascendance Series, Book 1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mockingjay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Brightest Night (Wings of Fire #5) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dragonet Prophecy: Wings of Fire, Book 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Howl's Moving Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire #4) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Darkstalker: Wings of Fire: Legends, Book 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Merchant of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Cuentista Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The School for Good and Evil: Now a Netflix Originals Movie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catching Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/520,000 Leagues Under the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire #2) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Library Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girl Who Drank the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Infernal Devices (Mortal Engines, Book 3) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Castle in the Air Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mossflower Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fortunately, the Milk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coraline: Full Cast Production Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wind in the Willows: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Graveyard Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Where the Wild Things Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Serendipity of Flightless Things
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews