The yellow bird sings - Jennifer Rosner

'Prepare to have your heart broken' - Good Housekeeping
Woman & Home Book Club Pick

Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice.

After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Rza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, seek shelter in a local farmer's barn. They spend their days and nights in silence to avoid being caught.

When their safe haven is shattered, Rza faces an impossible choice: whether to keep her daughter close by her side, or give her the chance to survive by letting her go.

A deeply moving novel about the unbreakable bond between parent and child, The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner powerfully portrays the triumph of humanity and hope in even the darkest circumstances.

'If you only read one book this year, make it The Yellow Bird Sings' - AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird
'Room meets Schindler's List . . . a beautifully written tale of mothers and daughters' - Kate Quinn, author of The Huntress

The Yellow Bird Sings is Jennifer Rosner's debut novel. She is the author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard, and the children's book, The Mitten String. Her writing has appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives in western Massachusetts with her family.

Prepare to have your heart broken
Good Housekeeping

If you only read one book this year, make it The Yellow Bird Sings . . . Jennifer Rosner's novel stands alongside The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as one of those profoundly special World War Two novels you know you will never forget
AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird

The Yellow Bird Sings is at the top of my reading list
Elle

A captivating, quietly powerful telling of music, loss, longing and hope
Living Magazines

Room meets Schindler's List . . . a beautifully written tale of mothers and daughters
Kate Quinn, author of The Huntress and The Alice Network

Told beneath an overarching sky of the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter, this is a story readers will continue to ponder long afterward
Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours and Before and After

This is an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel, full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices made for love
New York Times - Mary Beth Keane

A captivating and emotional tale about the love between a mother and daughter
ReadPlus

A deeply moving novel in which even the weakest and most vulnerable are sustained by the power of music, stories and love in a music, stories and love in a time of terror and tyranny
Herald

A captivating read
Good Reading

Outstanding . . . it will appeal particularly to fans Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief
Glam Adelaide

Rosner's debut novel is a World War II story with a Room-like twist, one that also deftly examines the ways in which art and imagination can sustain us . . . an effective work of suspense, and Rosner's understanding of how art plays a role in our lives, even at the worst of times, is impressive
Kirkus