She behaves more like the farm boys than the lady she has been raised to be, and her feisty temper is more entertaining than annoying. It’s 1290 and Birdy is funny, quick-witted and keen for adventure, no matter how small. He is the worst suitor of them all and Birdy is running out of time…īoth hilarious and horrendous at the same time, Catherine, called Birdy (due to her menagerie of birds hanging from her bedroom ceiling) is also a movie based on this book on Amazon Prime. When another match is arranged for her, the usual deterrents don’t work and she begins to truly despair. This unfortunately loses her a friend and a relative – both close to her heart. There is other match making happening among peasant and lords alike. She is also given a book of saints with their special dates and she heads up each diary entry with a short sentence on that day’s saint.Įven at only 13, suitors arrive to ask for her hand in marriage, but Birdy finds ways to despatch them again, often before they meet her father. Writing a diary is a suggestion from one of her brothers and she takes to it pleased at least it doesn’t involve a needle. Birdy’s songs (unbecoming for a lady, let alone at the table with company) land her in her room, and not before a clip around the air or a smack somewhere else from her father. This often lands her locked up in her room doing embroidery or… Keen for adventure, even if only in the confines of their manor home and land, Birdy is mischievous, feisty and strong of opinion. “…crusading, swinging my sword at heathens, and sleeping under starry skies on the other end of the world.” But thoughts of marrying well, keeping demure, quiet, and submissive are far from Birdy’s mind. The year of our lord 1290, Catherine (or Birdy to some) is aged 13 and struggling to be a lady.īirdy’s father is moderately wealthy with 10 servants and many tenants on his land, and he has expectations of his only daughter.

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