The Heart of the Valley point for writing the novel. It was also based on the nature in the valley where he lived. The Heart of the Valley The Heart of the Valley is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton. It was first published in 1986 and was his first and to date only book written for adults. The story focuses on the nature of an English valley especially the dunnocks. In the winter a female dunnock left her territory to find food and came to the front garden of Brook Cottage where other birds were also feeding from the bird table. That evening
Huma bird Huma bird The Huma (, pronounced "Homā", Avestan: "Homāio"), also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth. There are numerous folk interpretations of the name, among them that of the Sufi teacher Inayat Khan, who supposed that "in the word "Huma", "hu" represents spirit, and the word "mah" originates from