World Rights to Nina Berkhout’s pitch perfect second adult novel, WHY BIRDS SING- in the company of her ailing brother-in-law, his pet parrot, and a group of outspoken whistlers, a disillusioned opera singer finds her way back to music and human connection- to Jen Knoch at ECW Press for Fall 2020 by Stephanie Sinclair and Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency.