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The bird's child / Sandra Leigh Price.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
PB P	Adult Fiction		Panania .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781460750001 (paperback)
ISBN	1460750004 (paperback)
Name	Price, Sandra Leigh author.
Title	The bird's child / Sandra Leigh Price.
Published	Sydney, N.S.W. Fourth Estate, 2015.
Description	373 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	Sydney, 1929: three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house in a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan, who lives under the stern rule of his rabbi uncle, but dreams his father is Houdini. Upon his hand he bears a forbidden mark - a tattoo - and has a secret ambition to be a magician. Finding an injured parrot one day on the street, Ari is unsure of how to care for it, until he meets young runaway Lily, a glimmering girl after his own abracadabra heart. together they form a magical act, but their lives take a strange twist when wild card Billy, a charming and dangerous drifter twisted by the war, can no longer harbour secret desires of his own.
Subjects	Australian fiction
	Boardinghouses -- Fiction
	Magicians -- Fiction
	Magic tricks -- Fiction
	Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian fiction . Boardinghouses -- Fiction . Magic tricks -- Fiction . Magicians -- Fiction . Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Authors: Price, Sandra Leigh .