On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees meets the acclaimed poet W.
Yeats at a soirée in London.
Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed.
As zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom against the skyline, Georgie finds purpose tending to injured soldiers in a makeshift hospital.
She befriends the wounded and heartbroken Lieutenant Pike, who might need more from her than she is able to give.
At night, she escapes with Yeats into a darker world, becoming immersed in the Order, a clandestine society of ritual and magic.
As forces--both of this world and the next--pull Yeats and Georgie closer together and then apart, Georgie uncovers a secret that threatens to undo it all.
In bright, commanding prose, author Alice Miller illuminates the fascinating and unforgettable courtship of Georgie Hyde-Lees and W.
Yeats.
A sweeping tale of faith and love, lost and found and fought for, More Miracle than Bird ingeniously captures the moments--both large and small--on which the fates of whole lives and countries hinge.
Tin House Books More miracle than bird, paperback/alice miller
