num_pages: 160
description: Sisters Sarah and Catherine each have a secret. However, as winter gives way to spring at the bleak and isolated farm where they live with their mother Jane, the burden of these secrets becomes intolerable. Deirdre Madden won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Hidden Symptoms.
language: English
title: The Birds of the Innocent Wood
titlecomplete: The Birds of the Innocent Wood
genres: Ireland, Fiction, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 66
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Faber & Faber