Fed to Red Birds by Rijn Collins

Fed to Red Birds by Rijn Collins

Prepare to be bewitched by Iceland and the book that has enchanted readers for decades – and imprisoned one of them.
 
Elva loves Iceland for many reasons – the epic landscape of gods and
volcanos, the weather that’s the polar opposite of her home in
Australia, and the fact that it’s where her mother might have gone back
to when she disappeared. Iceland is where Elva’s beloved grandfather –
the famous children’s book author - lives in a remote village and where
the beings that haunt her imagination reside.
 
Elva is
interested in the odd things people make – Victorian collectibles, old
spells, taxidermy, fairytales. The weird, the wonderful and the
sometimes macabre. She’s got a few quirks of her own that she’s (mainly)
keeping under control. Except one.
 
Working in a shop of
curiosities, studying at Icelandic language school, Elva begins to
explore her obsessions, and when her grandfather suffers a stroke, they
threaten to overtake her. Then she meets Remy, a painter who’s got some
secrets of his own …
 
In her captivating debut, Rijn Collins
has created a beautifully evocative portrait of an enchanted mind in an
enchanting place – a story of everyday magic, both dark and light; of
families and the shadows they can cast; of the delights and dangers of
the imagination. Fed to Red Birds will transport you to remote corners of both the world and the human heart.