THE BIRDCATCHER was first published as Die Vogelfangerin by Rowolht (Neu Frau imprint) Hamburg, Germany: January 1986, translated into German from the English language manuscript.

The German editors refer to this as a "cool, quirky triangle story" and "an artistic narrative study of female creativity" by an author who "lets texts speak for themselves."

Amanda Wordlaw is the "passionate narrator" of this novel set in the 1970's and early 1980's. The other central characters are the imaginative sculptor Catherine Shuger and her husband Ernest, whose name defines him.