Not all of my GR friends agree with me, but this is my favorite of Kearsley’s novels (though I still have a few to go). The modern timeline is okay, but the historical story of Anna is fantastic, especially if you’ve read The Winter Sea. Nicola, with the help of her ex-boyfriend Rob - who’s clearly still carrying a torch for her - is trying to prove the provenance of the firebird carving to help a woman who needs the money it would bring. The McGuffin in this story is the eponymous firebird, a wood carving of a bird that may have come from the tsarina of Russia back in the day. All the stars for this Susanna Kearsley dual timeline (of course) novel, which takes us from Scotland to Belgium to Russia, with a brief stop in France, as our two modern characters, Nicola and Rob, who both have strong psychic abilities, follow the trail of Anna, a young girl in the early 1700s (and the daughter of the couple in The Winter Sea).
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