Saskatoon Star Phoenix review of The Afterlife of Birds

Oct.3.2015

Bill Robertson, of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, reviews The Afterlife of Birds

In his article, “Elizabeth Philips produces the most gentle of novels,” Bill Robertson discusses a new kind of plot for which The Afterlife of Birds is a “perfect example”; a plot that does not focus on (as Jack Hodgins describes it), “heroic quests and individual triumphs,” but rather the “journey inward.”