A prize-winning, spine-tingling gothic suspense novel based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West VirginianA SUNDAY TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023nnSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 IRISH BOOK AWARDSnn’A novel that demands you turn the pages’ THE TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTIONn’A gothic mystery pulsing with suspense’ MAIL ON SUNDAYn’An intense, memorable tale’ SUNDAY TIMESn’Brilliant’ IRISH TIMESn’I was tenterhooked from the very first to the very last page’ JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindnessn’Compelling’ ANNE ENRIGHTn’A glorious tour de force – gorgeous and moving’ IRISH AMERICAn’Truly superb’ VICTORIA MACKENZIE, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little PainnnWest Virginia, 1897. Young newlywed Zona Heaster Shue is found dead in her house, in what seems to have been a tragic accident. However, her mother, Mary Jane, is convinced Zona was murdered – and by none other than Zona’s husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town.nnBut when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have done it, apart from Mary Jane and Zona’s best friend Lucy, who was always suspicious of Trout. As the trial raises to fever pitch and the men of Greenbrier County stand aligned against them, Mary Jane and Lucy must decide whether to reveal Zona’s greatest secret in the service of justice. But it’s Zona herself, from beyond the grave, who still has one last revelation to make.nn*The Red Bird Sings was announced as the winner of the Kate O’Brien Award 2024 on 25/02/24nnReaders love THE RED BIRD SINGS:nn’Amazing’ READER REVIEW ★★★★★nn’This book has so much: feisty feminist characters ahead of their time, ghosts, historical drama, justice,nbeautiful writing’ READER REVIEW ★★★★★nn’Very compelling . . . not one to be missed!’ READER REVIEW ★★★★★nn’A haunting story of love, revenge and grief’ READER REVIEW ★★★★★nn’Difficult to put down’ READER REVIEW ★★★★★
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