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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017
First published as Birds Art Life in Canada by Doubleday Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited in 2017
First published as Birds Art Life in the United States by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc in 2017
Copyright © Kyo Maclear 2017
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Illustrations (interior and jacket): Kyo Maclear
Photography: Jack Breakfast (www.smallbirdsongs.com), unless otherwise indicated
Map: Jennifer Griffiths
Book design: CS Richardson
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Source ISBN: 9780008225049
Ebook Edition © 2018 ISBN: 9780008210014
Version: 2017-11-06
For David
Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.
ANNE CARSON
Contents
On facing a father’s illness
and finding that grief takes strange forms,
including wanderlust.
One winter, not so long ago, I met