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Bird summons / Leila Aboulela.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF ABOU	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
AF ABOU	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781474600132 (paperback)
Name	Aboulela, Leila, 1964- author.
Title	Bird summons / Leila Aboulela.
Published	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019.
Published	©2019
Description	290 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it all and return to Egypt. Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son, but now her husband wants to move to Saudi Arabia where she fears her son's condition will worsen. Iman feels burdened by her beauty. In her twenties and already in her third marriage, she is treated like a pet and longs for freedom. On a road trip to the Scottish Highlands, the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird whose fables from Muslim and Celtic literature compel them to question the balance between faith and femininity, love, loyalty and sacrifice.
Subjects	Muslim women -- Fiction
	Friendship -- Fiction
	Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
	Hoopoe -- Fiction
	Highlands (Scotland) -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Friendship -- Fiction . Highlands (Scotland) -- Fiction . Hoopoe -- Fiction . Interpersonal relations -- Fiction . Muslim women -- Fiction . Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction . Authors: Aboulela, Leila, 1964- .