Spy story set mainly across Scotland

Submitted: 31st July 2023

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she’s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she’s walking out on her job, her home, her life…..

BookTrail Travel to A Bird in Winter

Boarding Pass Information: Scotland, Birmingham

Author guide: Louise Doughty

Genre: spyish thriller

Food and drink to accompany: anything you can pop into your backpack as you run

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BookTrail Travel to A Bird in Winter

I love Louise Doughty and I enjoyed this book but I don’t think the blurb matches the story within – it doesn’t do it justice. It seems to be a spy themed thriller with a woman fleeing her office and heading up to Scotland to escape someone or something but it is so much more than this.

Bird walks out of her meeting in Birmingham and goes on the run. She heads to and passes few a fair few places (How many shall I put on the map I asked myself) She is clearly on the run and this seems to be the spark that will alight the novel and burn it with the spy label. However, it’s not exactly that yet it does explore the life of someone on the run. Question is why is she running?

When you start to discover Bird’s backstory, that is when the trail really starts clicking into place. This is the story – why a woman named Bird decides to escape her life one day by just walking out. Oh I really can’t say much else but just be prepared for a good story – it is Louise Doughty after all.

And you’ll need to put your feet up afterwards as you get to travel loads in this book!