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Oct 1, 2016 · The Birdman's Wife is the debut novel of Melissa Ashley, published by Affirm Press. It has arrived on the literary scene accompanied by a good deal of promotion and publicity - and for good reason. The Birdman's Wife is a fascinating historical study, a meticulous and well-documented scientific report, an emotional story, and an engaging read.
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Nov 3, 2016 · The Birdman's WifeMelissa AshleyAffirm Press, $32.99. Melissa Ashley's task, as she says in an author's note, is to bring to life, through fiction, what the factual accounts have overlooked.
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Nov 5, 2016 · The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley Affirm Press Hardback, 389pp, 2016, ISBN 978 1 925344 998 . I drifted towards the back of the workshop, my attention caught by a menagerie of shorebirds – a godwit, several sandpipers, curlews, dotterels, herons and varities of plover. For a heart-stopping moment the display tricked my eyes.
Why we love it: The Birdman’s Wife is as gorgeously rendered as some of the stunning lithographs by artist Elizabeth Gould. It’s the story of a significant but little-known historical figure, a woman previously overshadowed by her better-known husband, John Gould, who was often known as Australia’s first ornithologist or the ‘Bird Man’. Around the …
May 4, 2017 · It’s been shortlisted for the General Fiction Book of the Year in the ABIA awards, it sounded rather interesting, and it’s had good reviews, but… The Birdman’s Wife is written in a genre that I’ve christened Rescue-A-Woman-From-Oblivion. These women have larger-than-life husbands whose fame so overwhelms them that we know next to ...
Sep 25, 2016 · 25 Sep 2016. The Birdman’s Wife is a novel that will appeal to bird fanciers and devotees of John Gould’s monographs. The story is told from the perspective of Gould’s wife, Elizabeth, and begins in 1828 when she is twenty-four, and meets Gould for the first time. At this stage Gould is working as a taxidermist, though once the couple ...
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The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley. by Anna MacDonald •. January–February 2017, no. 388. The Birdman’s Wife is about passion, obsession, and ambition. Narrated by Elizabeth (Eliza) Gould, the novel relates her marriage to, and creative partnership with, zoologist John Gould. Opening with their meeting at the Zoological Society of ...
