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Birds in Flight

By: Anni Taylor
Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson
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Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother.

In 1998, the American Jorgenson family had been on a year-long road trip in Australia. One humid, storming night, the mother - Elsa Jorgenson - vanished in an isolated stretch of Australian everglades. Elsa was never seen again.

That night, twelve-year-old Lily Jorgenson was left alone and terrified in the family camper—even her teenage sister Iris is missing. When Iris comes racing back through the rain, she refuses to tell where she’s been. Lily is certain her sister is hiding a dark secret.

24 years later, Lily is a travel writer living a settled life with her son in Pennsylvania, USA. Lily and Iris are estranged, with Iris’s secret having torn them apart. When floods dredge up their mother’s backpack from the everglades, tantalising clues are uncovered, and the police reopen the cold case.

Lily returns to Australia, determined to force Iris to finally tell her secret, and to do that, she'll have to reunite with her. But when Lily unlocks the gut-wrenching events of the past, she finds that everything she thought was true about her family is about to shatter.

ANNI TAYLOR lives on The Central Coast, north of Sydney, Australia, with her partner and four boys. Her thriller novels include The Game You Played, Stranger in the Woods and Poison Orchids.

©2023 Anni Taylor (P)2023 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.

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I enjoyed this twisty mystery story and the narrator was great. I recommend this author!!!

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Very good story

Loved the characters & plenty of plot twists. Great depiction of Australia countryside & opened up areas I wasn’t familiar with.

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Wonderful

I’m admittedly stingy with my 5 stars, particularly with audio books, but this one earned it across the board. The book would have been a 5 regardless, but the reader’s voice is so soothing and she makes the characters come to life. By far my favorite reader.

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First read by this author. Story was well paced, characters believable, easy read.

All of it. The rebuilding of the sisters relationship. The lengths they went to in order to reconnect.

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kept interest throughout

getting a feeling of Australia visiting places on the coast while living this very human story

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Incredible story of perseverance and sisterhood

I was hooked shortly into the story and the ending is far from what I would have imagined. Love, loss, finding what’s really important and whether you have the strength to go on.

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A good solid story of revealing secrets!

Pleasantly surprised by this book. Unpredictable twists, and the story had an easy flow and captivated the flaws of human nature well. Even the main characters had their quirks and issues; which is so true to life. A really good book!

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Enjoyed the narrator

I really enjoyed this book, besides the beautiful locations in Australia, it about the difficult relationships between mothers and daughter and sisters. I never guessed the ending!

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Easy listen

The middle-end dragged on. Hats off to the narrator for juggling multiple accents. Engaging story but veered off-pace a bit.

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Very good listen

Interesting story line, good character development and surprising twists. I highly recommend you will enjoy it.

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