Nest Of Spices
Sidgwick, Linda
At the end of its five hundred year life, the Phoenix builds a nest of spices, perches on it, and sings until the sunlight sets it alight, both nest and bird burn completely away and a new young Phoenix bird arises from the ashes.' The consequences of a mother taking the secret of her new-born child's paternity to the grave, are grave indeed.Joseph Elliot, Lizzibeth Buxton and Henry Ferguson, are unlikely childhood soul-mates through a fortuit...