![]() ![]() Petra is Nisha’s employer, she hires Nisha to look after the house and her own daughter Aliki, who she raises from birth. ![]() Nisha came to Cyprus from Sri Lanka to work as a maid in order to support her mother and daughter after the death of her husband in Sri Lanka. Songbirds, like her previous novel, looks at migrants, but in a different way. Last year I listened to the audiobook of Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo, narrated by the amazing Art Malik, and fell in love with Christy Lefter’s writing, so I jumped at the chance to read her new book. As they set out to search for her, they realise how little they know about Nisha. No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra and Yiannis. His dreams of a new life, and of marrying Nisha, are shattered when she vanishes. Nisha’s lover, Yiannis, is a poacher, hunting the tiny songbirds on their way to Africa each winter. By day she cares for Petra’s daughter at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone. Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. Publisher : Manilla Press (8 July 2021)Ĭares for our children, cleans our homes. ![]()
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