The Social Lives of Birds by Joan E. Strassmann #literature the last thing she wants

the last thing she wants to do is consider her own past

a tiny cellar

Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz

lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history

What follows is a complex story of three women connected through one man: Birdie

The Social Lives of Birds by Joan E. Strassmann #literature the last thing she wants'A tour de force survey of how birds live their lives with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap opera' Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World 'Utterly fascinating . . . Strassmann is the perfect guide to this world: an author as much fascinated by the science and research as she is motivated by the sheer joy and wonder of the birds themselves' James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Raptor In The