A Bird in Winter

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office - the next, she's walking out on her job, her life. It's a day she thought might come - but nothing could prepare her for it. As she flees north, Bird has to work out who is on her trail. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?

Louise Doughty's novels include Platform Seven, recently filmed for ITV; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which was adapted for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for fiction. She has been nominated for many other prizes including the Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger, along with creating and writing the hit BBC drama Crossfire. Her work has been translated into thirty languages. She lives in London.