The Birds Began to Sing
$32.22
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2025
Summary
Reggie was still missing after five days, and Gladys Harris was saying things about him that quivered in my mind, which now, four years later, I see as being that opening sentence leading me to this burden of what happened to Reggie Kingsley.
In the harbour city of New Plymouth in the 1960s, there’s a fizz of seedy sexuality beneath a veneer of respectability. Godfrey’s world is the Balmoral Hotel his parents own, where visiting sailors drink and local fringe-dwellers congreg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058439 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923058436 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Buchanan |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 236mm x 157mm |
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Critics Review
‘A novel filled with humanity, warmth and humour.’ * Lloyd Jones *
‘Heartbreaking, hilarious and boldly written. A bona fide page-turner about the importance of living your own truth.’ * Nigel Featherstone *
‘A pitch-perfect evocation of a bygone era…has a gentle humour, but it conveys powerful truths.’ * NZ Listener *
‘Buchanan has managed to make the town and its characters very realistic of the 60s. There are lots of unspoken understandings, warmth and humour spread throughout the story, but it’s also sprinkled with an underlying sadness of lost innocence.’ * NZ Booklovers *
‘Absolutely terrific…should attract wide readership for its sheer humour, fine craftsmanship and the bubbling and hypocritical community in which to spend some time. Buchanan’s work is an absolute joy.’ * Otago Daily Times *
About The Author
Jeffrey Buchanan
Jeffrey Buchanan has written five novels concerned primarily with LGBTQI+ issues, Sucking Feijoas being his first. He worked in international development for thirty years and lives with his husband on a remote stretch of beach in North Canterbury in New Zealand’s South Island.
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