The Birdcage by Eve Chase

                                                          

Ebook:   400 pages

Genre: Fiction, Suspense, Family Mystery, 

Publisher:  Penguin April 2022

Source:  My Kindle

First Sentences: The snow is still falling, feathery flakes whirling in the golden light f the train window then sucked into the black. But the 14.04 London - Penzance keeps hurtling west, drawing Lauren closer to rock Point, the house she fled one summer's day twenty years before.

Review Quote: 'Daphne du Maurier for the modern day' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

My Opinion: 

This is the second title by this author that I have read and just like 'The Glasshouse' it is story of secrets centred around a family home.

Rock Point is the family home of the Finch sisters, Flora Kat and Lauren. They share a father, the artist Charlie Finch but they all have different mothers. It is 2019 and the girls have been summonsed to the family home by their father as he has something he wishes to tell them altogether.  It has been twenty years since they were all there together the summer of the eclipse when there was a horrendous event at the house. Ever since then the three girls have lived with the terrible memories and torment. It is now time for them all to learn from the mistakes the past and trust each other again.

Full of secrets, great characters and an atmospheric setting 'The Birdcage' will appeal if you are a fan of family mysteries.

Previous Review :   The Glasshouse

Précis Courtesy of Goodreads: 

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

Each has found their way of burying it. Over the years they've grown apart, and 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 with Birdcage, reunites them.

Rock Point is a beautiful, windswept place, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the one subject the family dare not discuss. And there is someone in the shadows watching the house, their every move. Someone who remembers the girls in the painting. What they did.

The sisters must unlock the truth to set themselves free - and find each other again.

Author Profile:         

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The following is what Eve has to say about herself on her Website.

I write from a studio/shed in my townhouse garden in Oxford. A small space, it's perfect for cooking up bigger ones. I love to write about sprawling, dysfunctional families in curious, characterful settings. A crime usually beats at the heart of my books. As I love stories that envelope you in their world but also read at a page-turning pace, I try to write them too. 

Married with three children. Owner of a very hairy golden retriever called Harry. 

Studied English Literature at Manchester University and went on to do a post-grad in journalism. I once edited a street fashion magazine, Scene (no longer on the scene, or in existence) and wrote for many publications including Dazed and Confused, Punch, InStyle, Red, Marie-Claire, You and national newspapers.
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I read all the time, happily hopping between authors and genres. My ever changing list of favourite authors include Maggie O'Farrell, Liane Moriarty, Kate Atkinson, Elizabeth Strout, Diane Athill, Donna Tartt, Lisa Jewell, Raymond Carver, Jane Austen, Kate Morton, Hilary Mantel, and Barbara Vine.

I love hearing from readers. You really make all the hours writing away on my own worthwhile. Please drop by on Insta/Facebook/Twitter and say hello.

Thank you so much to those of you who've taken the time to read my books, review and blog about them. 

Happy reading! 

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