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“Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.”

Quote by Carol Birch

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Carol Birch is a British novelist born in 1951. Her works are known for their profound social insight and focus on ordinary people. Birch's novels often explore themes of social inequality, family relationships, and individual identity. more

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