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A review by beate251
Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Grieving Birdie Greenwing has incurable cancer and only a few more months to live. It isn't much of a life, after both her twin sister and her husband died together in an accident. Birdie is lonely.
Polish-born Ada is the oncologist who gave Birdie the bad news. Ada lives in her street but doesn't communicate with her neighbours except for the father/son duo in the Polish corner shop. At work she's also quite a cold fish, until she gets intern Wilbur allocated who chips away at the walls she built around herself. Ada is lonely.
Jane is a people-pleasing nurse in the same hospital as Ada and lives next door to Birdie with her 11 year old neuro-diverse daughter Frankie, while her sister Sukie and bleddy opinionated mother Min only visit now and then. Jane is lonely.
Then Birdie has a fall in her garden, and everything changes.
This is an equally sad and heartwarming story of grief, love and sisterhood and how it's never too late to live your life and open your heart up to other people. It is beautifully written and makes you care for each of the characters. Also, I now want one of Connie's slogan mugs!
Polish-born Ada is the oncologist who gave Birdie the bad news. Ada lives in her street but doesn't communicate with her neighbours except for the father/son duo in the Polish corner shop. At work she's also quite a cold fish, until she gets intern Wilbur allocated who chips away at the walls she built around herself. Ada is lonely.
Jane is a people-pleasing nurse in the same hospital as Ada and lives next door to Birdie with her 11 year old neuro-diverse daughter Frankie, while her sister Sukie and bleddy opinionated mother Min only visit now and then. Jane is lonely.
Then Birdie has a fall in her garden, and everything changes.
This is an equally sad and heartwarming story of grief, love and sisterhood and how it's never too late to live your life and open your heart up to other people. It is beautifully written and makes you care for each of the characters. Also, I now want one of Connie's slogan mugs!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Grief, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness