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The Nightingale Sings
The Nightingale Sings
Jan 1, 2026 8:44 AM

Author:Charlotte Bingham

The Nightingale Sings

Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies.

'A novel rich in dramatic surprises... will have you frantically turning the pages.' - DAILY MAIL

'One of Britain's most bankable novelists.' - THE DAILY EXPRESS

'I laughed and cried at this tale, could visualise the characters, scenery and the story' - ***** Reader Review

'Great book, grabs you on the first page' - ***** Reader Review

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A DARING DECISION COULD COST HER EVERYTHING...

When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner with her horse, The Nightingale, she has every right to believe that success is hers at last.

But life will never be simple for Cassie Rosse, not just because she is unable to move out from the long shadows cast by the early death of her husband, Tyrone, nor because she has an indomitable will to win in the man's world of racing, but because she has integrity.

Against all advice, therefore, she decides to keep The Nightingale in training and race him as a four-year-old, a decision that triggers a set of circumstances which quickly turn her brilliant triumph into a nightmare...

Reviews

'A novel rich in dramatic surprises...Will have you frantically turning the pages'

—— Daily Mail

Exuberant...funny and sad and full of human sympathy

—— Jill Paton Walsh

Quite, quite different... eerie, horrific, brilliant

—— Guardian

His fierce love for his mother warring with the need to follow his own desires - analysed with a vigorous relentlessness and pungent imagery - makes this a work whose power stands the test of time

—— Sunday Times

When I was 13 or 14 this was the book I couldn't put down. It's very good teenager territory

—— Jonathan Pryce , Daily Express

His ability to live and write on the hoof never ceases to amaze

—— William Scammell , Independent

Lawrence is tremendously exciting . . . we were all influenced by Lawrence, including the poetry, which is wonderful, and is probably still not enough liked, partly because people call him sexist. He's much more complicated

—— Thom Gunn

Lawrence is elegant yet passionate and his imagery is second to none

—— Daily Express, Simon Shepherd's Six Best Books
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