The Bird of Night

The Bird of Night
First edition
Author	Susan Hill
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Published	1972 (Hamish Hamilton)
Pages	186
ISBN	0-241-02258-4

The Bird of Night is a novel by Susan Hill. It won the 1972 Whitbread Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Susan Hill commented in 2006: A novel of mine was shortlisted for Booker and won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction. It was a book I have never rated. I don't think it works, though there are a few good things in it. I don't believe in the characters or the story.^[1]

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↑ Susan Hill's blog entry 20 Aug 2006

The Enclosure (1961)
Do Me a Favour (1963)
Gentleman and Ladies (1968)
A Change for the Better (1969)
I'm the King of the Castle (1970)
Strange Meeting (1971)
The Bird of Night (1972)
In the Springtime of the Year (1973)
The Woman in Black (1983)
Air and Angels (1991)
The Mist in the Mirror (1992)
Mrs de Winter (1993)
The Service of Clouds (1997)
Corruption
The Going Down of the Sun
The Man in the Picture (2007)
The Beacon (2008)
The Small Hand (2010)

Simon Serrailler crime novels	The Various Haunts of Men (2004) The Pure in Heart (2005) The Risk of Darkness (2006) The Vows of Silence (2008) Shadows in the Streets (2010) The Betrayal of Trust (2011)

Short story collections

The Albatross and Other Stories (1970)
A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1973)
Listening to the Orchestra (1997)
The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read (2003)

The Bird of Night

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