“Rick Farrant’s writing is at once touching and gut-ripping. He describes in unadorned prose his life, his childhood, and his longing to understand his origins, his birth mother—all the while not asking for congratulations or pity. He lays bare the hollow world of the sixties suburbs and describes how suffering can happen in small corners, in comfortable households, in smoky bathrooms. Because of his unselfconscious prose it is easy to be drawn into Rick’s world and to identify with him. The aches and joys in his heart become ours, we see the world through his eyes. Writing any memoir is a difficult. A well-written memoir is rare. Rick Farrant masters this dragon of prose form and gives us a work of tenderness and, ultimately, transcendence.”

“Somewhere Bluebirds Fly is a no-holds-barred, well-written account of loss, loneliness and a son’s search for his birth mother. I couldn’t put it down. I found myself cheering for him every step of the way.”

“Somewhere Bluebirds Fly pulls the reader into Farrant’s search to unearth where and why his birth mother set him adrift from his biological roots. A small lonely boy inside the award-winning editor/writer cries out for the person who gave him life, gave him away and died before he located her some 60 years later.”