Odd Bird cover art

Odd Bird

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Odd Bird

By: Lee Farnsworth
Narrated by: Mark Peachey
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £13.99

Buy Now for £13.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Simon Selwood is an academic expert on the monogamous sexual behaviour of birds but hopeless at finding human love. Then he meets Kim, and at last something is more important to him than ornithology.

Kim doesn’t give a hoot about birds. And at first she isn’t very interested in Simon, either. Relying on what he has gleaned from observing the opportunistic pied flycatcher and other species, plus the unorthodox advice of old friend Phil, Simon sets out on a mission to discover love for himself. But will he make the right choice?

Odd Bird takes a light-hearted look at the battle of the sexes, drawing on the surprising parallels between the courtship behaviours of humans and birds.

©2020 Lee Farnsworth (P)2020 W F Howes Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Heartfelt

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Beach Holiday cover art
The Wife App cover art
Swipe Right cover art
The Accidental Housemate cover art
Binding Devotion cover art
Changing Perspectives cover art
Guilty Hearts cover art
Where Are You cover art
Forget it cover art
A Story of Now cover art
Seventeen cover art
Too Late...I Love You cover art
Promise Me cover art
Love Songs for Sceptics cover art
Dare to Love cover art
The Wish List cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I thoroughly enjoyed Odd Bird. The main character's interpretation of the world and specifically his love life from his stance as an ornithologist makes for a funny and eye opening approach. I found myself drawn into the antics of the male and female characters as portrayed by the lead protagonist's behavioural ecologist observations of their pair bonding while he made his own frustrated attempts to achieve the same.
The wide range of voices used by the narrator of the audio book added another engaging dimension to the story.
I would highly recommend this book as a very entertaining read or listen.

Remarkable first novel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I should say that the reason I ‘read’ this book was because I know the author...so the fact that I found it so enjoyable is a great relief...but I’m not writing this review because of said connection...I’m writing this because it thoroughly deserves a comment.

First of all, the fact that this is a debut novel is extraordinary. In my experience, writers very rarely achieve the maturity of narrative and a freshness of comedy that you’ll find here, this early on in their literary career.

There are many many things I enjoyed about the novel...here are just a few:
The first person narrative. As a male, I could so identify with the internal dialogue of Simon, the protagonist and sometimes even felt enlightened by passing insights into another’s thought processes. I thought this a genius way to deliver the story, which is being described as a rom-com.

Then there’s the humour - like finding a new standup who really fits in your corner, the humour is sharp and...well funny. It’s squeezed into clever little places that at times caught me snorting out loud - which is an unusual thing.

The story is enjoyable and cleverly presented. I really liked the scientific framing of the world of our feathery friends, and the parallels that are naturally drawn and pulled over into our human world. The story takes some quite unexpected turns on its journey to its conclusion.

There are many examples and references for me - at times the protagonist reminded me of Arthur Dent - aided by the scientific element to the story and the dry but clever wit that surrounds his story. I’m not a massive rom-com reader (this is perhaps my FIRST!), but another, film based reference I found was Richard Curtis, in some of his more accessible character expositions.

Ultimately I found this a thoroughly engaging read - one that is eagerly return to catch the next instalment. It was delightful, unexpected and engaging...and frankly, I can’t wait for the next one from Lee to see what else is up his sleeve!!

An unexpected delight.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I warmed a lot to this book as I progressed through it and was really enjoying it when it ended rather abruptly! It took me through a range of emotions as I laughed, nodded and shook my head in equal measure. I identified with both Phil and Bird and the situations they found themselves in and the places they inhabited which I guess helped in my enjoyment of the story. I also enjoyed the way the book is written, with a nod to scientific literature via Birds first person voice. It's an easy listen (and I think Mark Peachey did a very good job on this) and a great debut feel-good novel from this author. I look forward to the next...

I really enjoyed this book...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.