The release date for the English version of 'The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender' by
Leslye Walton is Mar 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This captivating generational drama is haunted by magical realism, beautiful writing, and the anguish and intensity of human love.
It seems that foolish love is in the Roux family's DNA, which portends badly for Ava Lavender, the family's most recent offspring. Ava, a typical girl in every other way, is born with bird wings.
As sixteen-year-old Ava searches for the reason for her strange behavior and her increasing need to blend in with her friends, she goes out into the world unprepared for what she could find and unsuspecting of the dark intentions of others. Some, such as the devout Nathaniel Sorrows, who believes Ava to be an angel and becomes more fixated with her until the evening of the Summer Solstice festival.
That evening, the sky opens up, there is rain and a hint of feathers in the air, and Ava's journey and her family's story reach a heartbreaking climax.
Leslye Walton, a first-time novelist, has created a complex and enduring mythology about what it means to be born with tragically exquisitely human hearts.