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The Birdcage

By: Eve Chase
Narrated by: Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Taj Atwall
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The new novel from the author of Sunday Times best seller and Richard and Judy Pick The Glass House

Some secrets need to be set free....

Lauren, Kat and Flora are half-sisters who share a famous artist father—and a terrible secret.

Over the years, they've grown into wildly different lives. But an invitation to Rock Point, the Cornish cliff house where they once sat for their father's most celebrated painting, Girls and Birdcage, reunites them.

Rock Point is a beautiful windswept place, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the events of the summer—20 years before—that the family daren't discuss. And there is someone in the shadows watching their every move. Someone who remembers the girls in the painting—and what they did.

An emotional mystery full of dark secrets and twists, transporting the listener to the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall.

©2022 Eve Chase (P)2022 Penguin Audio Family Life Genre Fiction Gothic Historical Horror Mystery Scary Fiction Exciting

Critic Reviews

"Eve Chase does it again! A bittersweet, beautifully written, slow-burn family drama with a killer kick in the closing chapters. I loved every word of it." (Lisa Jewell, best-selling author of The Night She Disappeared)

"Gorgeously written, atmospheric and twisty...I devoured it!" (Claire Douglas, best-selling author of The Couple at No. 9)

"Immersive, tense and ultimately redemptive, while I was reading, it held me completely in its grip." (Sarah Vaughan, best-selling author of Anatomy of a Scandal)
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I’m a huge fan of all of Eve’s books and this is one of my favourites. Lovey story!

Love this ♥️♥️

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It sounds strange to say a book was too wordy but that’s how I felt I wanted to shout “enough with descriptions and feelings and get on with the story which was good. I really enjoyed the ending.

Slow start but worth it

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I loved the narration and story of this book and would’ve given it a higher rating but something niggled at me throughout. Knowing African Grey parrots well it annoyed me where Bertha would say something after only hearing it once. Birds speak after repetitively hearing a word, phrase or sound and this irritated me each time he said something he’d only just heard. Aside from that I loved the book.

Very enjoyable but with a flaw.

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I rarely give up on a book but this is one of those rare times. Try as I may I could not get into it. I went back several times and listened again to the early chapters but no. On a positive, it did send me to sleep.

I rarely give up on a book

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