The Earthquake Bird Audiobook (Free)

Early today, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I talk about the incident not to suggest that there was a connection – that somehow the fault lines in my own life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen – for in Tokyo we have a quake such as this on a monthly basis. I am merely relating the sequence of events as it happened. It’s been an unusual day time and I’d hate to ignore anything .

So starts The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel occur Japan about The Earthquake Bird which shows a murder on its first web page and took its readers into the brain of the chief suspect, Lucy Travel – a young, vulnerable English female living and working in Tokyo like a translator. As Lucy is normally interrogated by the police she reveals her previous to the audience, which is a previous which is certainly dangerously ambiguous and reducing . . .

Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and just what got prompted her to sever all links with her family members back home? She was the last person to start to see the murdered young lady alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last conference? As Lucy’s tale unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both previous and present, obsess her waking existence . . .

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