- Title:
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How to Make a Bird
- Written by:
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Martine Murray
- Read by:
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Mikaela Martin
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 4 minutes
- Published:
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February 01 2005
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (13+)
- ISBN:
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1740948351
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740948357
- Genres:
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Fiction; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Older Readers 2004
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature 2004
Winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Young Adult Award 2004
“A quirky tale of longing and self-discovery."
aussiereviews.com
“A beautiful and intense experience of a girl, a day, and a whole life."
Reading Time
A bittersweet story about longing and losing and finding again.
Mannie is searching for the thing she doesn't yet know, but it's like a runaway kite pulling her heart forward. So she's leaving home. She's heading for the city with nothing but a long red dress, a strong hunch, and an unknown address in her pocket. As the day turns to night, Mannie makes a lot of discoveries and not exactly the ones she planned to make.
"Readers familiar with Martine Murray's writing will know this story of Mannie, a slightly eccentric 17-year-old, who sets off on a bicycle from her home in country Victoria, bound for Paris. As the story unravels, the reason behind Mannie's secret early-morning flight from home and the strangeness of her behaviour are revealed. Murrays's writing style tends to the dramatic and the vivid and will not be to everyone's taste, but I think it is these qualities that are part of what make this translation from text to audio so successful. The imagery-laden text gives narrator Mikaela Martin lots of material to work with, in order to really bring the story to life. An early scene of a pair of abandoned wooden eagle wings is given real impact by the combination of Murray's words and Martin's voice. While the unabridged audio version of the novel weighs in at just over seven hours, making it a pretty serious time commitment, I can imagine this book being a beautiful listen for a long car trip or similar – provided the driver didn't become so distracted by the powerful 'aural visuals' that they forgot to watch the road!"
Australian Bookseller & Publisher
"Wise and funny."
Magpies Magazine
"One of the most original, irrepressible and exciting 'voices' to be heard amongst writers at present.”
Viewpoint