Starling Days

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD</b><br><b><br>''</b><b>A singular novel from the poetic and painterly mind of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.'' Sharlene Teo, author of <i>Ponti</i></b><br><br>''<b>An exquisite rendering of love, sadness, and misunderstanding</b> . . . <b>I want to share this book with everyone I know</b>.'' <i><b>The Paris Review </b></i><br><br><b><i>''</i>A quiet triumph - tenderly and disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love, loneliness, what it is to feel lost'' Sophie Mackintosh, author of <i>The Water Cure</i></b><br><br><b>Mina</b> is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she''s not about to jump but they don''t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to pick her up.<br><br><b>Oscar</b> hopes that leaving New York for a few months will give Mina the space to heal. They travel to London, to an apartment wall-papered with indigo-eyed birds, to Oscars oldest friends, to a canal and blooming flower market. Mina, a classicist, searches for solutions to her failing mental health using mythological women. But she finds a beam of light in a living woman. Friendship and attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina''s complicated love is tested.</p>