Flamingo Rachel Elliott by Rachel Elliott 9781472259455, 1472259459, B08Y561LKF instant download after payment.

Inspired by the kindness of a stranger, Daniel boards a train and travels back to the place where he was happiest, where he once felt like he belonged - but who will be there when he arrives? Warm, tender, and full of compassion, Flamingo is a novel of love - and hope

"Flamingo is the most wonderful, life-affirming, readable book about two families who quite by chance end up living next to each other."  -  Mary Ann Sieghart, chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022

First, there were the flamingos. And then there were two families. Sherry and Leslie and their daughters, Rae and Pauline - and Eve and her son Daniel. Sherry loves her husband, Leslie. She also loves Eve. It couldn't have been a happier summer. But then Eve left and everything went grey. Now Daniel is all grown-up and broken. And when he turns up at Sherry's door, it's almost as if they've all come home again. But there's still one missing. Where is Eve? And what, exactly, is her story?

"A lovely study of the stories we tell ourselves… Elliott’s prose is graceful and engaging… Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place of all."  -  Eric Page, Scene Magazine

Flamingo is a novel about the power of love, welcome and acceptance. It's a celebration of kindness, of tenderness. Set in 2018 and the 80s, it's a song for the broken-hearted and the big-hearted, and is, ultimately, a novel grown from gratitude, and a book full of wild hope.