Flamingo, Rachel Elliott
Flamingo, Rachel Elliott
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Flamingo
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, an exquisite novel of kindness and hope

Author: Rachel Elliott

Narrator: Lucy Paterson

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 02/03/2022

Synopsis

A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless

In the garden, there were three flamingos. Not real flamingos, but real emblems, real gateways to a time when life was impossibly good. They were mascots, symbols of hope. Something for a boy to confide in.

First, there were the flamingos. And then there were two families. Sherry and Leslie and their daughters, Rae and Pauline - and Eve and her son Daniel.

Sherry loves her husband, Leslie. She also loves Eve. It couldn't have been a happier summer. But then Eve left and everything went grey. Now Daniel is all grown-up and broken. And when he turns up at Sherry's door, it's almost as if they've all come home again.

But there's still one missing. Where is Eve? And what, exactly, is her story?
FLAMINGO is a novel about the power of love, welcome and acceptance. It's a celebration of kindness, of tenderness. Set in 2018 and the 80s, it's a song for the broken-hearted and the big-hearted, and is, ultimately, a novel grown from gratitude, and a book full of wild hope.

(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Rachel Elliott

Rachel Elliott is the author of Whispers Through a Megaphone, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2016, and Do Not Feed the Bear. She is also a psychotherapist, and lives in Bath.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on April 03, 2022

I read this book due to its longlisting for the 2022 Women’s Prize. I would describe it as a relatively simple uplifting, hard-wrenching and ultimately life affirming novel but written in a style which to me at least seems to be inspired by Ali Smith – kind of like Ali Smith writing a screenplay for......more

Goodreads review by bookishcharli on February 06, 2022

This wonderful book is centered around themes of love, friendship, family and kindness. We all go through lots of struggles in life and the characters in this book aren’t any different, but the important things are to ensure that we learn from our actions. The choices and decisions we make all shape......more

Goodreads review by Co_winterstein on March 11, 2023

Flamingo🦩 Daniel Berry, der Protagonist in Rachel Elliotts neustem Buch "Flamingo", wird von seiner Freundin Erica verlassen. Als er auch noch aus dem gemeinsamen Appartement ausziehen muss, weil der Vermieter es zu einem Airbnb machen möchte, verliert er den Boden unter den Füßen. Obdachlos geht er......more

Goodreads review by Jules on January 29, 2022

I don’t think a book needs to necessarily be happy to be uplifting. In Flamingo, there are plenty of characters who are struggling with who they are, and the decisions they’ve made in the past. But that’s life, eh? What becomes important is learning, seeking out the truth & realising that our choice......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 29, 2022

Book reviews on www.snazzybooks.com. Flamingo is a book I picked up (like many others, I imagine) because I saw it on the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist, and then seeing so many other bloggers and reviewers rave about it. And it did not disappoint! This is a book that ignited so many feeling......more

Quotes

'Flamingo is the most wonderful, life-affirming, readable book about two families who quite by chance end up living next to each other' Mary Ann Sieghart

Beautifully written, witty, clever, and a proper page-turner Felicity Hayes-McCoy

I LOVED this . . . I read it in a day . . . It is vibrant and glorious, full of life and colour and pain and love Julie Cohen

'I love Rachel Elliott's books. I love the way her stories are populated by characters who don't quite seem to neatly fit into the mainstream . . . You come away from reading a story such as this not feeling quite so bad about yourself . . . Utterly exquisite, heart-wrenching and heart-warming' NB Magazine

It's a wonderful exploration of family and friendships and how covering up the truth can lead to unnecessary pain. Beautifully written, it kept me gripped as the truth began to unravel Jules Swain

'Flamingo is as gorgeous inside as it is on the outside' Sarah Turner

'Heartbreaking and funny at the same time. The observations of internal worlds - how we all think and feel, our fears and insecurities - are so accurate and nuanced, and also incredibly kind. Tender and beautiful, this novel is full of profound intimacy. Just wonderful' Nigel Wellings, psychotherapist and author of Nothing to Lose, Why Can’t I Meditate? and Present With Suffering

'A brilliant and well-written book that I can't recommend enough!' Owen Hollifield

'A very special book. Flamingo is one of those novels that's hard to describe, because there's so much in it. It's only when you have read and thought about it that you can really start to appreciate what an incredible author Rachel Elliott is, and how layered and nuanced her novel is. I loved it' Clare, Two Fond of Books

'Flamingo is a beautiful story of love. You get close to Daniel, Rae, Leslie and the others . . . You want to keep them in your heart, listen to them, sit down at that table and be a family together. The writing style is magnificent: stimulating, intriguing, musical, like a song. A brilliant book - this is a five-star for me' Naza The Bookworm

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