Susan Smillie

Praise for The Half Bird

Absorbing, moving, impressive

Guardian

A beautiful, wise and open-hearted odyssey through life, loves and the sea. Susan lives many of our dreams, showing how we need nature, solitude and community – and less stuff! – to flourish and find fre ...

Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles

Susan Smillie's story is told with all the invigorating energy of a crisp wind under a cloudless sky. The way she renders the world as seen from the prow of her beloved Isean is utterly beguiling. The Half ...

Charlotte Higgins, Chief culture writer, The Guardian

Absorbing, moving, impressive

Guardian

A beautiful, wise and open-hearted odyssey through life, loves and the sea. Susan lives many of our dreams, showing how we need nature, solitude and community – and less stuff! – to flourish and find fre ...

Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles

Susan Smillie's story is told with all the invigorating energy of a crisp wind under a cloudless sky. The way she renders the world as seen from the prow of her beloved Isean is utterly beguiling. The Half ...

Charlotte Higgins, Chief culture writer, The Guardian

Absorbing, moving, impressive

Guardian

A beautiful, wise and open-hearted odyssey through life, loves and the sea. Susan lives many of our dreams, showing how we need nature, solitude and community – and less stuff! – to flourish and find fre ...

Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles

Susan Smillie's story is told with all the invigorating energy of a crisp wind under a cloudless sky. The way she renders the world as seen from the prow of her beloved Isean is utterly beguiling. The Half ...

Charlotte Higgins, Chief culture writer, The Guardian