A breathtaking debut for fans ofThe Poisonwood Bible. It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, is at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. In present-day London Frieda, opens her door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone, leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird. The two begin an unlikely friendship, and they embark on an unexpected journey. An extraordinary story of inheritance and the search for belonging in a fractured and globalised world.