These Glass Bodies
An unmissable debut novel of nature, love, and human connection
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These Glass Bodies
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Rebecca Hooper
Summary
'I read it twice I loved it so much' Jo Browning Wroe, author of A Terrible Kindness
During the warmest spring anyone can remember, in a Scottish coastal town, one boy discovers the magic of birds . . .
It is the warmest spring anyone can remember. Rory, eleven years old, lives with his father Angus in Invergrian, near the ocean in Scotland. He finds the world both terrifying and utterly enchanting, but he keeps this to himself: he hasn't spoken a word for five years, not since his mother left.
Anna lives a quiet existence nearby, spending her time hand-rearing nestlings from the wild. She has never felt more at peace than in Invergrian, with her birds and her woods and her work.
But when Rory stumbles upon Anna's house of birds, both find their lives changed. Rory can't believe his luck - he's long suspected birds to be magic, and Anna seems happy to teach him how to help them, not questioning his silence. Anna too finds her solitary life stirred by this enigmatic boy and a growing connection with his father.
But as the spring burns on, amid the quiet work of saving the nestlings, alarm bells start ringing. Water becomes scarce. The elderly in the town become fearful. Exhausted birds start falling out of the sky. When a shocking discovery on the shore sends Anna down a path of obsession, can Rory and Angus prevent her world from falling apart at the seams?
Tender and exquisitely crafted, THESE GLASS BODIES is an absorbing, unsettling debut novel of love, community and our fragile relationship with the natural world.
Critic Reviews
Set against the heat of climate change, this stunning debut novel demonstrates the power of compassion and the grace of acceptance. Moving, elegant, important, Rebecca Hooper is a voice that must be heard
A luminous, compassionate storyof people rendered heartbroken and desperate by the climate crisis, but whose fragile, fledgling love for each other gives strength and hope. I read it twice I loved it so much
A strikingly original novel shot through with a shimmering optimism. I can't remember the last time a book made me so afraid for the planet's future while so emotionally involved in the story. Hooper portrays every one of her characters with attentive sympathy and authenticity, weaving the strands of their lives with a heartfelt warning to pay attention to our natural world
These Glass Bodies is as fascinating and thought-provoking a response to the climate crisis as I've read anywhere. Hooper's writing manages to be both mesmerising and urgent, beautiful and alarming. Gloriously good
What a beautiful debut. Its quiet but urgent insistence that we appraise our relationship with nature, and with one another, is more powerful than a lot of the noisy rhetoric around environmental or societal collapse. I hope it reaches the wide audience it deserves
The perfect debut. Rebecca Hooper explores the fragility of our relationships both with the natural world and each other
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