The Birdcage
The spellbinding new mystery from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick The Glass House
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4.2 • 106 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
Three sisters. A twenty year old secret. One chance to set it free . . . THE SPELLBINDING NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY PICK THE GLASS HOUSE
'Beautifully written. I loved every word' LISA JEWELL
'Gorgeously written, atmospheric and twisty . . . I devoured it!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'Daphne du Maurier for the modern day' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Immersive, tense and ultimately redemptive' SARAH VAUGHAN
'Engrossing, gripping and layered' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
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When half-sisters Lauren, Flora, and Kat are unexpectedly summoned to the Cornish house where they spent their childhood summers, it's the first time they've dared return.
Because the wild cliffs and windswept beaches hide a twenty-year-old secret.
The truth about what they did.
Someone who remembers them lurks in the shadows, watching their every move.
And there are other secrets, even darker than their own, waiting to be unearthed . . .
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Praise for The Birdcage:
'Atmospheric' Jane Fallon
'Utterly intoxicating' Veronica Henry
'Evocative' Karen Swan
'Page-turning' Katie Fforde
'Kept me absolutely gripped' Rosie Walsh
'Stunning' Catherine Cooper
'Eve Chase's best novel yet' Gill Paul
'Haunting' Tracy Rees
'Spellbinding' Katy Regan
'Skillfully plotted' Lindsay Cameron
'I loved it' Tammy Cohen
'Intriguing' Janet Skeslien Charles
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Think your family is dysfunctional? You haven’t yet met acclaimed artist Charlie Finch and his three adult daughters. It is a testament to the characterisation skills of best-selling British novelist Chase that she renders the trials, tribulations and tortured relationships of these highly privileged (in the main) characters so compellingly. This slow-drip domestic thriller pinballs between the present and a febrile summer day in 1999 when the UK experienced a total solar eclipse. Needless to say, the creeping sense of darkness that day wasn’t limited to the sky. Chase excels at atmospheric settings and The Birdcage is no exception. Rock Point, the creaking family pile on the rugged West Cornish coast seems to hide a secret in every dusty drawer—there are echoes of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca here.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This moody psychological thriller from Chase (The Daughter of Foxcote Manor) opens in January 2019, when three half-sisters, Kat, Flora, and Lauren, are summoned by their eccentric artist father to his picturesque Cornish summer cottage for a surprise announcement. The sisters spent idyllic summers on the coast with their father when they were young, but they've avoided one another since the summer of 1999, when a tragedy tore the family apart. Now finally thrown together again, Kat, Flora, and Lauren are forced to deal with their involvement in a horrendous event that has overshadowed their lives for 20 years. The tension ramps up when they realize that someone is watching them—someone who knows what they did. Chase does a good job depicting family relationships, and while it's hard to like some of the deeply flawed characters at first, as their individual stories unfold, the reader can't help empathizing with even the most vile of them. Exquisite prose and an evocative setting compensate for a buildup that leads to not so many surprises and not much of a payoff. Those who value style over story will best appreciate this.
