Why Birds Sing

Short Description

A charming novel about a disgraced opera singer, her cancer-plagued brother-in-law, a temperamental parrot named Tulip, and a competitive whistling group called the Warblers.

Sales and Market Bullets

Berkhout has been positively reviewed by the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Manhattan Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Quill & Quire, La Presse, Coup de Pouce, and W Network.
Berkhout’s previous work has been named an Indigo Best Book, Toronto Public Library Best Book, Harper’s Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel, Kobo Best Book, CTV Favourite Read, W Network Must Read Book of the Month, a Quill & Quire Editor’s choice, a Renaud-Bray coup de cœur, and featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter.
Why Birds Sing is a charming, upmarket commercial novel that will appeal to readers of Amy Jones and makes for a perfect book club pick.
Book club questions will be available.

Audience

Fans of Nina’s previous novels or poetry
Fans of offbeat, character driven plots
Readers of commercial/literary fiction hybrids like We’re All in This Together by Amy Jones or Normal People by Sally Rooney