turaco

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Synonyms for turaco

large brightly crested bird of Africa

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"The Go-Away Bird." All the Stories of Muriel Spark.
THE CRY OF THE GO-AWAY BIRD By Andrea Eames (Harvill Secker, pounds 12.99) THIRTEEN-year-old Elise was born in Zimbabwe and cannot imagine a life outside her uncle's farm and the care of family servant, Beauty.
THE CRY OF THE GO-AWAY BIRD by Andrea Eames (Harvill Secker) pounds 12.99 THIRTEEN-year-old Elise was born in Zimbabwe and cannot imagine a life outside her uncle's farm and the care of family servant Beauty.
8/10 * The Cry Of The Go-Away Bird, by Andrea Eames, in paperback, by Harvill Secker, pounds 12.99.
The skimpiness extends to earlier stories, including "The Go-Away Bird." This very affecting story (the longest in the volume), which traces the life of a woman from childhood to her murder, cries out to be a novel.
We don't howl that the imperilled threelegged haggis or the go-away bird is an asylum seeker, do we?