The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness310 Pages
George Duncan is an American in London, divorced, 48 and lonely. One night he wakes to hear a keening in his back yard. He goes out to find a wounded crane who has been shot through the wing with an arrow. He saves the crane but is left shaken.
As George goes on with his life a mysterious woman named Kumiko comes into his shop and starts a relationship that changes George, George's daughter Amanda and everyone who sees the art work the two create.
Based on a Japanese folk tale, this book is about the relationship between man and woman and the role of forgiveness. Sometimes it gets bogged down in heavy handed moral telling but redeems itself at the end.
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