VITA AND THE BIRDS

VITA AND THE BIRDS is a breath-taking story which follows Eve, a young woman revisiting the coastal Suffolk town of her childhood summers, and Vita, a woman whose status and controlling brother force her to keep her new friendship with local artist Dodie a secret.

A towering glass building known by locals as the Cathedral of the Marshes dominates the landscape, and the two women's lives, which are connected through the decades. Eve broke into the dilapidated cathedral one night as a teenager and what she saw has haunted her ever since. Only now, years later, does she come to understand how she and her family are linked to that night, and to Vita's story, in a beautiful and terrible way.

Polly grew up on the Suffolk coast, and now lives in Norfolk with her husband and son. Prior to signing her publication deal, Polly was awarded both the Curtis Brown Creative Yesterday Scholarship, and the Annabel Abbs Creative Writing MA Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.