Time and Tide in Sarajevo

‘In Time and Tide in Sarajevo Birdsall constructs an intricate world, where old pain and contemporary frustration ignite and hope and despair are tightly woven. A tinderbox of a novel. Finely-crafted and absorbing.‘Jessie Cole, author of Staying‘A fine thread of tension and mystery binds this beautiful, gentle story. Time and Tide in Sarajevo is both fascinating and touching, encompassing lovely details of life in Sarajevo.’Mirandi Riwoe, author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain‘A vivid and compelling novel that goes right to the beating heart of modern-day Sarajevo.’Marele Day, author of Lambs of God‘Time and Tide in Sarajevo hooked me from page one. Bronwyn Birdsall has written a triumph of a book a tender, careful, beautiful love letter to a city and its people that grapples with belonging and the possibility of repair. I couldn’t put this page-turner down!’Sarah Sentilles, author of Draw Your Weapons

Bronwyn Birdsall grew up in Sydney. At the age of twenty-four, she moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked as an English teacher. The four years she spent there provided the inspiration for her first novel, Time and Tide in Sarajevo. Her writing centres around contemporary life and finding meaning in the everyday, and has been selected for several development programs. Alongside her writing practice, Bronwyn runs a digital strategy consultancy. She writes from her home in Northern NSW, on Bundjalung country.