Lyrebird: Beautiful, moving and uplifting: the perfect holiday read

Lyrebird: Beautiful, moving and uplifting: the perfect holiday read
Cecelia Ahern

The Sunday Times bestseller‘An emotional love story with great heart’ Sunday ExpressFollowing the death of her father, Laura Button’s secret life in remote West Cork is uncovered. When he meets her, deep in the forest that surrounds her home, Solomon Fallon feels an instant connection to a unique young woman.Nicknamed Lyrebird for her voice, and talent, Laura needs to leave her remote cottage and find a new life. But Solomon’s fear is that the world won’t set Lyrebird free. Instead, it will put her in a cage.The story that unfolds is one of a quite extraordinary love.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

This edition published 2017

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Source ISBN: 9780007501892

Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780007501885

Version: 2017-10-18

Dedication (#ud08f68fc-7a60-5cc7-b87a-6c70946ca5e7)

For Paula Pea

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is one that is most responsive to change.

Attributed to Charles Darwin

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#udbd3dee8-d4fa-5121-a98a-4ac6c45d2d8a)

Copyright (#u4c1c2f03-5782-5360-8d0b-8db2e50e8d78)

Dedication (#u98db4022-2d40-5a91-88c1-87cfce2986ce)

Epigraph (#u17e60d67-eabb-5d0e-8a28-a9520f9b852a)

Prologue (#u614d39fa-260f-5123-af3b-3995352e504b)

Part 1 (#uf61bb0f1-1cce-52c4-80f6-d34ac1eecd8e)

Chapter 1 (#uda7e7523-965b-5846-bc9c-9b7f2d8324f5)

Chapter 2 (#u09c63612-765e-5eb5-825b-c8d5128256f8)

Chapter 3 (#u08833427-e5a4-5ea8-a1d2-2ab0abb32c7c)

Chapter 4 (#uc2598212-0030-53ed-966c-8818fa5b43c8)

Chapter 5 (#u7294ab84-df07-5b58-83b5-c5b36b409b16)

Chapter 6 (#u9a236c82-cde6-5dda-a166-19e01ed4f48e)

Chapter 7 (#u916631fa-23c8-58e4-9d31-43c81f6a53f9)

Chapter 8 (#u5e90d07d-2e89-5b2f-a65c-79ba86b00f0d)

Chapter 9 (#u63c64e11-8608-50a3-bca5-2ae3c66a3097)

Chapter 10 (#u37a96864-cd31-5b80-91d1-6775bc6e4b70)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)