And the birds fled to the bush - Innes, Helen Mae
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The valley is calm, quiet, waiting. Mrs Henderson thinks it's earthquake weather but she doesn't say anything, doesn't want to make a fuss. It's probably nothing. No one else notices it's quiet, too quiet, until everyone does at the same moment, like at a party when everything goes quiet and no one wants to be the first to speak. All the birds are airborne, and the whole valley holds its breath. In post-earthquake suburbia everyone is just trying to survive - grow some veggies, avoid being evicted, keep up with the local goss. Meanwhile a specialist in birdsong arrives hoping to conduct…mehr

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The valley is calm, quiet, waiting. Mrs Henderson thinks it's earthquake weather but she doesn't say anything, doesn't want to make a fuss. It's probably nothing. No one else notices it's quiet, too quiet, until everyone does at the same moment, like at a party when everything goes quiet and no one wants to be the first to speak. All the birds are airborne, and the whole valley holds its breath. In post-earthquake suburbia everyone is just trying to survive - grow some veggies, avoid being evicted, keep up with the local goss. Meanwhile a specialist in birdsong arrives hoping to conduct research in the surrounding hills. His project is regarded with ire or indifference by all except for Timothy, a weird loner living in the bush, whose speech is odd and behaviour odder.
Autorenporträt
Helen is a writer of fiction and non-fiction who usually lives in a house in Naenae, sometimes on a boat in Seaview, and hardly ever but with great enthusiasm in a yurt in Wainuiomata. She studied linguistics and psychology at Victoria University, then taught English as a second language for 20 years in Ireland, England, Japan, China, and New Zealand. She has travelled through 30 countries, mostly by train, and is good at studying a new language in the carriage before crossing the border, and forgetting it completely on the journey out. She's interested in cross cultural communication and dialects; especially subtle differences between speakers of the same language.