'An engrossing and vivid novel brimming with compassion for nature.' - Anna Iltnere, The Sea Library Magazine. Nicky feels her life is falling apart when she receives an unwanted gift from her estranged mother and is gripped by memories of the months her family spent living on a remote island raucous with birdlife. There'd been a reckoning. Life was never the same afterwards and while for Nicky a falling gum leaf had marked the beginning of a great...