- Title:
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The Bird of Night
- Written by:
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Susan Hill
- Read by:
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Cameron Stewart
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours 1 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2020
- Available Date:
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November 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867501534
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Award winning author
UK Author
The Bird of Night examines the relationship between Bipolar Affective Disorder and creativity; the illness that both creates genius and destroys it.
Francis Croft, the greatest poet of his age, was mad. His world was a nightmare of internal furies and haunting poetic vision. Harvey Lawson watched and protected him until his final suicide. From his solitary old age Harvey writes this brief account of their 20 years together and then burns all the papers to shut out an inquisitive world.
The tautness and control that characterise Susan Hill's work are abundantly evident in The Bird of Night as she magnificently handles the heights and depths, the splendours and miseries of madness and friendship.