Told with piercing empathy and heartbreaking realism, The Hummingbird is a masterful story of loving commitment, service to country, and absolution through wisdom and forgiveness. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons. Alone in the world, the embittered professor is dying. Charlie is a young math whiz drafted into the Manhattan Project, where his tasks require him to ignore his moral qualms. This novel is a love story set in 1944, amid the development of the atomic bomb. This is the first of Kiernan’s books that I have read, but it won’t be the last.

At the same time, Deborah’s primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Kiernan's latest novel is UNIVERSE OF TWO, now out in paperback. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. Buy a discounted Hardcover of The Hummingbird online from Australias leading online bookstore.

Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. Booktopia has The Hummingbird, A Novel by Stephen P Kiernan. From the author of the acclaimed The Curiosity comes a compelling and moving story of compassion, courage, and redemption.

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