The Firebird

Praise for Susanna Kearsley: ‘I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters - historical fiction that pulls you in and won’t let go!’ Diana Gabaldon ‘Kearsley has a poetic sensibility and a sense of mystery; she could write the modern Rebecca.’ The Bookseller ‘Evocative and romantic’ Nicola Cornick ‘Sometimes an author catches lightning in a bottle, and Susanna Kearsley does just that’ New York Journal of Books ‘A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical novel…Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book.’ Bernard Cornwell ‘One of Canada’s best historical fiction writers’ The Globe and Mail ‘Kearsley is nothing less than a magician weaving together the past and the present… utterly unputdownable’ M J Rose ‘A master storyteller’ Leslie Howard

New York Times, USA TODAY, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in twin-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels are published in translation in more than twenty-five countries. She lives near Toronto.