Historical fiction devotees will appreciate this sensitive character study wrapped in an atmospheric, moody rendering of WWI London.--Publishers Weekly The lens through which a story is told makes all the difference. Miller deftly presents a portrait of Georgie, a young woman calibrating her place in the world, and her shifting relationship with the man she adores.--Booklist Sweeping . A pristine, thoughtful re-imagining of the personal lives of true literary greats.--Shelf Awareness, Starred Review Subtle and low-key, Miller''s debut coolly appraises the poet while fully inhabiting the woman in his shadow.--Kirkus Reviews Alice Miller proves herself to be a superb medium, summoning the mind and heart of Georgie Hyde-Lees and placing her at the center of a finely tuned and riveting drama. More Miracle than Bird is both a necessary corrective and a vivid portrait of a set of mercurial artists in a tumultuous time.

--Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men Only a wildly gifted novelist could give us this terrific tale of Georgie Hyde-Lees and her sometime suitor, the much older poet W. B. Yeats. Written with superb emotional rightness.--Joan Silber, author of Improvement Miller''s stunning debut brilliantly chronicles the romance between midlife poet W. B. Yeats and the younger, shining Georgie Hyde-Lees, backdropped by a startling secret society obsessed with the promise of an Afterlife. A shimmering novel about our yearnings for forever, and the greatest mystery of life, which is, of course, love.

It must be said: More Miracle Than Bird is a bit of a miracle in itself.--Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You I was drawn at once to this subject--the strange and touching marriage of Yeats, one of the greatest of modern poets, to the young, sensitive, and articulate Georgie Hyde-Lees. This was an improbable union, in the wake of the poet''s torrential years of unrequited love for Maud Gonne and, alas, her daughter as well. The terrain is tricky here; but Alice Miller is a gifted novelist, and she brings these voices, this magical lost world, to vibrant life. More Miracle Than Bird will ring in my mind''s ear for a long time, and I will return to its pages. A wonderful book!--Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Alice Miller brings her fine poet''s eye to painting an unforgettable portrait of Georgie Hyde-Lees, future wife of W. B. Yeats, as she struggles against a background mélange of artists, writers, and occultists to discover her own mind.

Filtered through Miller''s keen poet''s ear, we hear the cadences of her characters'' interior voices in the twilight between life and death, and the beat of their hearts in their journeys towards love. An engrossing and impressive debut, More Miracle than Bird is a welcome addition to the canon of historical fiction that shines light on women whose legacies have been shadowed by their famed partners.--Lisa Gornick, author of The Peacock Feast Alice Miller brilliantly animates a pivotal period of literary history in expansive scope and immersive detail. Miller illuminates the relationship of Georgie Hyde-Lees and W. B. Yeats by vividly reimagining them, making the past newly apprehensible and riveting.--Joanna Scott, author of Careers for Women A transporting, wrenching novel written in prosethat dances across the page.--Keija Parssinen, author of The Unraveling of Mercy Louis Miller has written a luminous novel about the women involved with the early 20th century''s most notable men poets, offering a fresh portrayal of the women''s brilliant complexity.

Ambition, artifice, and adventure draw them through a contingent world unsettled by spirits, mediums, the war dead, and soon-to-be dead. But Miller is up to more than telling a story of these fascinating lives: More Miracle Than Bird makes a sly and disturbing inquiry into how art truly gets made and to whom it belongs.--Katherine Dion, author of The Dependents.