A mesmerising 1930s-set slice of gothic fiction, The Birdcage Library follows the endeavours of adventuress Emily Blackwood as she attempts to locate a mysterious artefact hidden in a crumbling Scottish castle.
'Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...'
1932. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale.
On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by a woman who vanished five decades before. And when she discovers the ripped pages of a diary, crammed into the walls, she realises dark secrets lie here, waiting to entrap her too...
The Birdcage Library will hold you in its spell until the final page.
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472276353
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 620 g
Dimensions: 238 x 158 x 40 mm
A brave adventuress, a looming castle and an entire menagerie of the wild and exotic - this is a gothic, gorgeous and vividly atmospheric novel, an immersive literary page-turner to be swept up in - Ellery Lloyd
To the reader with a most inquisitive mind and a fearless disposition, you are invited to embark on a quest, a treasure hunt, if you will, down a path only a puzzler may dare tread, for the answers to such a... More
Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy. Having loved Freya's first book The Dictator's Wife which was featured on Between The Covers there was no way I wasn't going to be reading this.... More
This is a fairly dark historical gothic style read set largely in a remote Scottish castle in 1932 and 50 years earlier in Manhattan. Told from two POV’s; Emily ‘Emmy’ Blackwood in the most recent time and Hester... More
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