Book Review - The Bird Sisters

The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is such a sad, sweet, melancholy and beautiful story. Two elderly spinsters are known in their town as the bird sisters, as they tend to injured birds with the help of an ancient medical bag and rehab the creatures with love and devotion. Few people come to their farm to visit, now, and they only have each other in the world, but it wasn't always this way.

During the summer when Millie was sixteen and Twiss fourteen, their eighteen year old cousin came to stay at their farm, where their mother reigned distractedly over the household and their father spent much time obsessing over golf. Millie had a sweetheart. The family had friends, and the possibility of a fascinating future - of travel and adventure for Twiss, marriage and children for beautiful Millie,,seemed laid out before them like a banquet. Til some letters on yellow writing paper changed everything, for everyone, for always.

I loved the authors delicate sense of style in writing. She doesn't use words clumsily or have awkward turns of phrase. Her writing is the equivalent of fine lace tablecloths and china tea sets. It's lovely. And yes, the story is sad some stories, like some lives, are. It's still pretty and humble and human, though. And that makes it wonderful.

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