A Little Bird Told Me
By Marianne Holmes
Blurb
Its the summer of 1976, Robyn spends her days swimming and tagging after her brother. It’s the perfect summer until her mum stirs up trouble by bringing home yet another crying woman.
Her actions cause tensions in the town begin to simmer. Everyone is gossiping about her mum, a strange man is following her around, and worst of all, no one will tell Robyn the truth. But secrets will out...
Twelve years later, Robyn returns home, to a house that has stood empty for years and a town that hasn’t moved on, forced to confront the mystery that haunted her that summer.
And atone for the part she played in it.
Our Review
A Little Bird Told Me is the debut novel by Marianne Holmes.
It is the summer of 1976, Robyn spends her days swimming and tagging after her brother. It’s the perfect summer until her mum stirs up trouble by bringing home yet another crying woman.
Her actions cause tensions in the town begin to simmer. Everyone is gossiping about her mum, a strange man is following her around, and worst of all, no one will tell Robyn the truth. But secrets will out...
Twelve years later, Robyn returns home, to a house that has stood empty for years and a town that hasn’t moved on, forced to confront the mystery that haunted her that summer.
And atone for the part she played in it.
After finishing A Little Bird Told Me I have complicated feelings about it. It was clearly well-written, and I wanted to love it, but I only liked it. It was readable, I would recommend it, but I probably won’t remember it.
A Little Bird Told Me has a captivating opening paragraph that immediately makes the reader wonder what happened.
“They say I’ll never find her.
Kit says it doesn’t matter because we still have each other but not a day goes by when I don’t long for the truth.”
Robyn feels like she has a certain amount to make up for and like she was at fault for some of what occurred. She knows that there is one person who knows where her mum is, and she knows that by coming back she risks him finding her, but she feels like she has no choice.
“Besides if you were one half evil, wouldn’t you want to know about the other half?”
Her brother Kit feels like it is unnecessary to be in the town, but she feels that they were complicit in what happens, and she has a lot of questions to ask.
There were parts of this book that were really good but my main problem with this book was that I guessed all the major twists before they happened and although it didn’t ruin the book it didn’t make for an exciting read.
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