Tanya Gold

Bird-brained: Brood, by Jackie Polzin, reviewed

Polzin’s narrator, recovering from a miscarriage, tries to see life as her chickens do, for whom each new day is a ‘bright and solitary gem’

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  • Brood

    Jackie Polzin

    Pan Macmillan, pp. 240, £14

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