Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn't forget how to fly.
ON August 3 I saw a white swallow flying among its fellows over a mill-pond at Garioch's Ford, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire. When I repassed on the following day it was still there, and it appeared to ...