The messenger
Subtitle: a novel
By: L.M. Shakespeare
Publisher: Hopcyn Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780957297791
Subjects: Racing pigeons; Fiction; Pigeon racing
Description: A book about the power of love; and racing pigeons. Love is a flower of the spirit which can grow in strange places, even where you might imagine that nothing could survive. The story of 'The messenger' tells of a group of people living in a small mining village in the 1940s, where everyone kept racing pigeons. A brain damaged child brought up by a devoted father and a waspish aunt, learns to share her father's passion for racing pigeons. A unique cast of characters - Italian wartime immigrants, ice-cream makers, school masters, heartbroken spinsters, footloose shepherds - witness the emergence of an astonishing story. And there is death. When that comes, who can understand it? And can even the fastest pigeon in the world deliver a message to a dead man?