The Birdcage by Eve Chase: Gothic thriller, some secrets need to be set free

368 pages G.P. Putnam’s Sons publisher July 19, 2022 publication date

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the spirit of Lisa Jewell and Kate Morton, an emotional mystery set in the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall full of dark secrets and twists, about three unusual sisters forced to confront the past.

Some secrets need to be set free…

When half-sisters Kat, Flora, and Lauren are unexpectedly summoned to Rock Point, their wild and remote Cornish summer home, it’s not a welcome invitation. They haven’t been back since that fateful summer twenty years ago—a summer they’re desperate to forget.
 
But when they arrive, it’s clear they’re not alone. Someone is lurking in the shadows, watching their every move. Someone who remembers exactly what they did…

Will the sisters be able to protect the dark past of Rock Point? Or are some secrets too powerful to remain under lock and key?

MY THOUGHTS

Told from alternating points of view and in different time periods. Three half-sisters their connection being their father. Jealousy is rampant amongst the sisters who haven’t seen each other in twenty years.

This Gothic thriller is full of secrets, secrets the women are desperate to forget but they must face once again. Why were the women summoned to the rugged Cornish home where the walls have eyes and someone unseen hears all.

Will desperation force them to do something they would never have thought of doing to keep things quiet? Hard to put down, I had to keep reading this intriguing read.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All options expressed are my own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eve Chase is an internationally bestselling British novelist who writes rich, layered and suspenseful novels, thick with secrets, unforgettable characters and settings. Her latest novel, The Midnight Hour – ‘Her best yet…I loved every word’ – Claire Douglas – publishes June ’24, in the UK. Other novels include, The Birdcage, The Glass House (The Daughters of Foxcote Manor, US) a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (The Wildling Sisters, US) which was longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, and Black Rabbit Hall, winner of Paris’ Saint-Maur en Poche prize for Best Foreign Fiction. She works in the Writer’s Shed at the bottom of her garden, usually with Harry, her golden retriever.

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