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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1999: The summer of the total solar eclipse. Three teenage half-sisters - Lauren, Kat and Flora - are staying at Rock Point, a remote Cornish house, under the neglectful eye of their artist father. They sit for his famous portrait, Girls and Birdcage. And hide a devastating secret.

2019: A winter reunion at Rock Point throws their lives into disarray. It's the first time they've been back since that summer - and they're trying to put it behind them. But someone is watching the house. Someone who recognises the girls in the painting. And won't let the past lie...

Eve Chase does it again! The Birdcage is glorious; a bittersweet, beautifully written, slow burn family drama with a killer kick in the closing chapters. I loved every word of it
Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Night She Disappeared

Eve Chase never disappoints. The far west of Cornwall is evoked in all its wild and mystical glory in this lyrical and propulsive family drama about three sisters whose lives have been overshadowed by a tragic secret on the eve of the 1999 eclipse. Chase conjures up a bohemian, artistic world filled with damaged daughters and their charismatic, largely absent and narcissistic father. Immersive, tense and ultimately redemptive, while I was reading, it held me completely in its grip.
Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

About Eve Chase

Eve Chase writes page-turning mysteries set in beautiful places, thick with secrets. Her novels include The Birdcage, The Glass House. The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde, Black Rabbit Hall and The Midnight Hour. The Glass House was a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, and she has previously won the Saint-Maur en Poche prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction and been longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. The Secret Thread is her sixth novel. Married with three children, she lives in Oxford.

Say hello on Instagram and Twitter @EvePollyChase and facebook.com/EveChaseAuthor. For press reviews and more detail about her books visit evechase.com

Details

Imprint: Penguin
Published: 13/10/2022
ISBN: 9781405949699
Length: 416 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 287g
Price: £9.99

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The Birdcage

The spellbinding new mystery from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick The Glass House

Format:

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Eve Chase does it again! The Birdcage is glorious; a bittersweet, beautifully written, slow burn family drama with a killer kick in the closing chapters. I loved every word of it

Eve Chase is one of my favourite authors and I fell in love with The Birdcage. A gorgeously written, atmospheric and twisty story of sisters and secrets set on the Cornish coast. Eve Chase's books never fail to make me cry. I devoured it!

Atmospheric and twisty: think Daphne Du Maurier for the modern day

I loved it . . . engrossing, gripping and layered

Atmospheric and beautifully written. I absolutely loved it.

Beautiful, page-turning, with believable characters you root for, this will sweep you away. I loved it

I loved this atmospheric story about families and secrets

The Birdcage is a show-stopping novel - beautifully written and atmospheric, with a cast of fascinating, brilliantly realised characters whose story kept me absolutely gripped. Eve Chase has an extraordinary talent - she's one of the only writers I would drop anything for

A beautifully written-mystery in an evocative Cornish setting at the time of the eclipse. Stunning

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