"This is a story about me, Clementine, and my friends: a panther called Levi, a pelican called Lola and a turtle called Jimmy. it is about dragons and goblins, my Daddy the King, my Mummy the Queen and Prince Pio my brother. At least that is the way I tell it sometimes when thoughts of the blood, the machetes, the swamp and the fear of Uncle Leonard become too hard to describe.
But that was all before I met Ashley, wonderful Ashley. Not that he would ever call himself wonderful in a million years. When he tells you his story you will see what i mean."
Ashley is a middle-aged loner, for whom teaching singing is his only escape from his troubled past and his self-abusive present.
Clementine is a Rwandan child refugee who witnesses the 1994 genocide first-hand and lives to tell the story. Delivered into the hands of an abusive uncle in the UK, Clementine remains undeterred in her hope for a brighter future.
When their two worlds collide, nothing is ever the same again.
The Go-Away Bird
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