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    Out of a Clear Sky
    Out of a Clear Sky
    Out of a Clear Sky
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    Out of a Clear Sky

    By Sally Hinchcliffe

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    People talk about the cold, hard light of day. There's no escaping what you can see by it. There can be no confusing, in that early morning light, the truth with the wished-for reality of dreams. The body was still there. He was still dead.

    Abandoned by her lover, Manda finds solace in bird-watching, a hobby her ex-partner introduced her to. The birds provide Manda with an escape from her troubled past - and an uncertain future. But then she falls prey to the ever more sinister attentions of another birdwatcher. As the harassment builds up, she is forced to flee, and details of her complicated past start to emerge.

    Haunted by her tenuous relationship with her family and memories of her African childhood, Manda is struggling with the choice between safety and freedom as she tries to escape her elusive stalker. Tempted by the promise of her friend Tom's protection, she wonders if she should finally trust someone before it's too late . . .

    Told through the vivid images of birds, Out of a Clear Sky is an unsettling psychological thriller which will grip you until the startling, unforeseen end.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateFeb 6, 2009
    ISBN9780330508087
    Out of a Clear Sky
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    Sally Hinchcliffe

    Sally Hinchcliffe was born in London but grew up all over the world in the wake of her father’s diplomatic career. She spent many years working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew developing research systems for taxonomists until a two-year sabbatical in Eswatini gave her the impetus to take her writing seriously. After completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, her first novel, Out of a Clear Sky, was published by Macmillan in 2008. She moved to south-west Scotland to work as a writer and freelance editor full time, when she is now out exploring rural Dumfries and Galloway on her bike. Hare House is her second novel.

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      At the centre of this story are the birds,the Ravens ; the Kingfisher ; the Parakeets ; the Starlings ; the Skylarks ; the Tawny Owl ; the Wren ; the Cuckoo ; the Swifts ; the Red Kite and of course the the Dunnock.What could have been a rather dull and uninteresting story concerning bird-watching becomes in fact the tale of obsession and murder. The,unexpected (or was it ?) ending is certainly a dramatic one but the humans remain subservient to the birds at all times.

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