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When Birds Do Sing
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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About the author
Flora Kidd
136 books34 followersFlora Mildred Cartwright was born on 1926 in Liverpool, England, UK. The youngest of four children, Flora and her family lived in the same house until she was a teen. In 1949, she graduated from Liverpool University, where she met Robert Kidd, her husband. They moved to her beloved Scotland, where she began teaching, writing, and raised their four children: Richard, Patricia, Peter and David.
Flora Kidd published her first novel, Visit To Rowanbank, in 1966 at Mills & Boon. In 1977, the family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where she continued her romance career with Mills & Boon until 1989, when she retired. In 1994, she published the first of the The Marco Polo Project novels, to support a project to build a replica of the 19th century ship Marco Polo.
Flora Kidd passed away on March 19, 2008 at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Flora Kidd published her first novel, Visit To Rowanbank, in 1966 at Mills & Boon. In 1977, the family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where she continued her romance career with Mills & Boon until 1989, when she retired. In 1994, she published the first of the The Marco Polo Project novels, to support a project to build a replica of the 19th century ship Marco Polo.
Flora Kidd passed away on March 19, 2008 at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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July 10, 2025
Boring engagement of convenience story. Probably because the characters are so unlikeable.
Heroine was a snob growing up and hero was the kid from a "scandalous" family in a small Scotish town. Heroine runs off to Canada after her father dies. She is a nurse in a big hospital and has an "affair" with a married man until she realizes it's not going to work out.
She returns to her small Scotish town to check on her neurotic mother. There she meets the town engineer who is going to bulldoze her family home for a new road. It's the hero, now the new town hear-throb. Heroine is prejudiced against him because of her mother, but is soon "in love" after they are stranded together overnight on a small island in the firth.
They enter an engagement of convenience to avoid scandal. He finally declares himself after the author runs out of pages.
There's lots of travelogue. OM and OW drama. And not a lot of romance. I wasn't feeling this one.
Heroine was a snob growing up and hero was the kid from a "scandalous" family in a small Scotish town. Heroine runs off to Canada after her father dies. She is a nurse in a big hospital and has an "affair" with a married man until she realizes it's not going to work out.
She returns to her small Scotish town to check on her neurotic mother. There she meets the town engineer who is going to bulldoze her family home for a new road. It's the hero, now the new town hear-throb. Heroine is prejudiced against him because of her mother, but is soon "in love" after they are stranded together overnight on a small island in the firth.
They enter an engagement of convenience to avoid scandal. He finally declares himself after the author runs out of pages.
There's lots of travelogue. OM and OW drama. And not a lot of romance. I wasn't feeling this one.
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May 12, 2022Lindsay had returned from Canada to her Scottish home to sort out her widowed mother's problems. That didn't take long -- but meanwhile Lindsay had met the formidable Scott Nicolson, and soon had plenty of problems of her own!
January 17, 2013
Light, fluffy and nostalgic.
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