LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018
After studying theatre and film, Tor Udall co-founded a dance-theatre company and spent most of her twenties directing, writing and performing. A Thousand Paper Birds is her first novel and was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018. She lives in London with her husband and young children. @TorUdall
A masterful exploration of love, loss and the healing power of the
natural world. Like Max Porter's Grief is a Thing With Feathers, it
uses fable, mystery and a poetic sensibility to get at the nub of
loss ... Heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure * Observer
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Abundant and richly suggestive ... Udall weaves a complex story
about the mysterious ways a life can linger, like a scent, and how
grief and love can sometimes feel so vast and overwhelming that no
earthly landscape can contain them * Daily Mail *
A rich and intricate debut, at once subtle and powerful, intent and
reflective, lyrical and visceral, expertly cultivating an abundance
of life from all that remains after death * James Hannah, author of
The A to Z of You and Me *
A moving story as intricate and elegant as the origami birds that
Chloe, one of the characters, folds. I loved this whimsical debut
novel * Red, Summer Reads *
Unputdownable fiction ... Poetic and finely wrought * Eithne Farry,
Sunday Express *
A story of death and its aftermath, which lingers long after the
last page * Independent *
An extraordinary, enchanting book. Writing as fine and precise as a
botanical sketch, gorgeously arty themes, powerful yet fragile
imagery and a brilliant story - this is a book to love and treasure
* Tracy Rees, author of Amy Snow *
This novel is all about seeing a "scarred loveliness" in a damaged
world * Psychologies *
A poetic exploration of those most difficult of topics, grief and
love, against the backdrop of Kew Gardens ... Udall deftly leads
the reader through the tangled web of relationships binding each of
these four people to Audrey, whose own story comes to be revealed
through her diaries * Scotsman *
Magical, memorable and one I will treasure * Ali Land, bestselling
author of Good Me, Bad Me *
I've fallen in love with this outstanding, eloquent book ... It's
sublime. It's one of the most beautiful books I have EVER read. It
touches your soul * Nina Pottell, Books Editor for Prima Magazine
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A delicate and beautiful unfolding of grief, loss, love and the way
that lives intersect. Insightful and inventive * Ann Morgan, author
of Beside Myself *
What a joy it was to read A Thousand Paper Birds, a lovely
clockwork of a novel ... May it FLY! * Shelley Harris, author of
Jubilee *
A Thousand Paper Birds brings Kew Gardens, and the people who meet
each other there, to life with vivid language * Yorkshire Post
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Absolutely wonderful. It has the emotional integrity of One Day and
the complexity and character depth of Cloud Atlas ... An incredible
achievement * Deborah Install, author of A Robot in the Garden
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Outstanding ... This book is packed with phrases and dialogue that
took away my breath, and occasionally brought tears to my eyes. It
is so, so intricate, so perfectly balanced. A beautiful novel that
should be savoured and treasured, and will be remembered for a long
time * Random Things Through My Letterbox *
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