The Evening Chorus

<strong>Amid the chaos of World War II three people find unexpected freedom through their connection to the natural world--from the author of Rabbit Foot Bill.</strong><br/><br/>Downed during his first mission James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of camp. Some prisoners plot escape; some are shot. And then one day James is called to the Kommandant's office. Meanwhile back home James's new wife Rose is on her own free in a way she has never known. Then James's sister Enid loses everything during the Blitz and must seek shelter with Rose. In a cottage near Ashdown forest the two women jealously guard secrets but form a surprising friendship. Each of these characters will find unexpected freedom amid war's privations and discover confinements that come with peace. <em>The Evening Chorus</em> is a beautiful astonishing examination of love loss escape and the ways in which the intrusions of the natural world can save us. <br/><br/><br/><em>The Evening Chorus</em> serenades people brutally marked by war yet enduring to live -- and relish -- the tiny pleasures of another day. With her trademark prose -- exquisitely limpid -- Humphreys convinces us of the birdlike strength of the powerless. -- Emma Donoghue<br/><br/><em>The Evening Chorus</em> sparkles. --Jo Baker <br/><br/>A poised lyrical novel about the griefs of war written with poetic intensity of observation. --Helen Dunmore