PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Isabel Strychacz is from a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Mills College in Oakland, where she received BA degrees in English/creative writing and history. With multiple short stories published in her university literary journal, she was the recipient of the college's award for top fiction prose in 2016. Starling is her debut novel. Isabel currently resides in the UK and you can find her online at @IsabelStrychacz (Twitter) and @BookishlyBelle (Instagram).
"""Evoking a darkly whimsical tone and told mainly from Delta’s third-person perspective with chapters interspersed from Bee’s and Starling’s points of view, this tale is an engrossing, languidly paced work of suspense exploring family and small-town dynamics and loyalties. . . .An earnest, slowly unfolding drama."" -- Kirkus ""Debut author Strychacz dusts her novel with the supernatural as she puts humanity’s beauty and ugliness on equal display, keeping this heartfelt story from slipping into sentimentality and sparkling all the more for it."" -- Booklist"
