One for Sorrow - Tapa blanda

"'Should we believe the hype? Yes' Sunday Express 'An assured performance' Times Educational Supplement 'An epic tale in the tradition of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings' --AlanYentob"

The surprise bestseller from the Sainsbury's supermarket worker that hit the national newspaper front pages, now available in a stunning mass-market edition Welcome to Birddom - a land where Magpies rule. Dark forces are at work. An evil intelligence is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dominance has been achieved by systematic genocide and slaughter. In Birddom, blackbird and sparrow have been exterminated. The magpie has replaced the pigeon in the city and the starling in the garden. For small birds throughout the land, survival is everything. Birddom needs a hero. A bird to fight in the darkness, and bring light back to the land. But what can one bird do in the face of such evil?