"Word perfect. Note perfect" – Phil Earle
"Made me cry … Beautiful" – Jackie Morris
"In the same way a great piece of music or an especially stirring sequence in film can overwhelm you, Birdsong fills you to the brim and threatens to spill over … Utterly singular and a triumph" – Just Imagine
"A perfectly structured novella" – Waterstones
"This is a book to dwell in, letting the story wash over you and settle your soul … Katya Balen and Barrington Stoke is a wonderful combination" – Kate Heap, Scope for the Imagination