Having spent her entire 12 years in elderly Mrs. Glendoveer's mansion where her mother works as a servant, Clara, a girl confined indoors because of a mysterious heart ailment, discovers at the end of the kind old woman's life a cache of dark family secrets about the long-ago deaths of her children.
In late nineteenth-century Maine, Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.
In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.
