Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumoured to hide a monster - and it is these rumours of a winged beast which draw in as much tourism to the town as its famous apple orchards. Two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig's family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, following the arrival of a new family in town, Twig may just have found her first true friend and an ally in vanquishing this ancient curse. It's time to try and break the spell... but will everything change when the red moon rises?
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YOU CAN'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR, not even in Sidwell, Massachusetts, where every person is said to tell the truth and apples are so sweet people come from as far as New York City during the apple festival. CHAPTER 1, THE WAUY IT BEGAN
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(@simonschusterUK, 5 March 2015, 208 pages, ebook, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I thought Nightbird was delightful. I devoured it in one sitting because it's very short, just over 200 pages. It reminds me a lot of her much longer book, Practical Magic with its magic, witches and an odd family of outsiders who are eventually welcome into the town. Though the magic aspects of Nightbird such as Twig's brother's wings and the ability to fly are more obvious than Practical Magic. The story is told through Twig's eyes as she struggles to keep her increasingly rebellious brother a secret from the town and starts to rebel against her mother's strict rules by making friends and sneaking out at night. I fell in love with everyone in the book despite the little time I spent in their company. I just wish this had been several hundred pages longer.
