The Birdcage

Critics Review

• 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 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!

  Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Couple at No. 9

• 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

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

  Sunday Telegraph

• I loved it . . . engrossing, gripping and layered

  Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of That Night

• Atmospheric and beautifully written. I absolutely loved it.

  Jane Fallon, bestselling author of Worst Idea Ever

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

  Katie Fforde, bestselling author of Wedding Season

• I loved this atmospheric story about families and secrets

  Prima

• 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

  Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call

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

  Catherine Cooper, bestselling author of The Chalet

• Vividly descriptive

  Choice

• The complex relationships between three half-sisters, their mothers and their artist father are painted with compelling psychological depth in this extraordinary and gripping masterpiece. The treacherous Cornish coast is the setting for a cleverly narrated unravelling of the past and the myriad ways in which it has shaped the present. It’s like an Old Master portrait that gives away more secrets with each viewing. Eve Chase’s best novel yet – and the bar was already sky-high

  Gill Paul, bestselling author of Women and Children First

• Atmospheric, suspenseful . . . A captivating, beguiling read

  Sunday Express

• A page-turning story brilliantly told in a lush narrative bursting with vivid, wonderful images. Haunting, emotional & just lovely. Loved it.

  Tracy Rees, bestselling author of The Rose Garden

• Wildly glamorous and utterly intoxicating, The Birdcage is Eve Chase at her very best: taut, intriguing and evocative. Du Maurier with a modern twist

  Veronica Henry, bestselling author of How to Find Love in a Book Shop

• Eve Chase is a stunning and meticulous writer and The Birdcage – like all her novels – is as spellbinding in its prose, as it is in its plot and the expertly crafted mystery at its heart. A very special novel

  Katy Regan, author of Little Big Man

• I read it in one sitting and absolutely sobbed at the end. Eve is such an evocative writer – she paints with words – but she has also crafted such a cleverly layered story that I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough! I was mentally and emotionally wrung out by the end. It’s a triumph!

  Karen Swan, bestselling author of The Christmas Secret

• Skillfully plotted and richly atmospheric, The Birdcage weaves together the stories of three sisters forced to confront an explosive past. Dark family secrets, old rivalries, and new dangers collide in this clever and engaging page-turner

  Lindsay Cameron, author of Just One Look

• An evocative, beautifully written mystery in which the past whispers in corners and family secrets are washed back in on the tide. I loved it

  Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding Party

• The Birdcage is an intriguing study of sisters and sibling rivalry, of memory and forgetting, of daughters who are more mature than their father. Eve Chase took me to an isolated manor in windswept Cornwall, where I turned the pages faster and faster to see if the three sisters could put the past – and past grievances – behind them. The perfect weekend read!

  Janet Skeslien Charles, author of The Paris Library

• I always look forward to a new Eve Chase novel and The Birdcage didn’t disappoint. Time and place are evoked with subtle perfection. Complex sibling rivalries and secrets, the past rubbing up against the present, make this a must-read Chase classic. I couldn’t recommend it more highly

  E.C Fremantle, author of The Poison Bed

• I loved this atmospheric story about families and secrets

  Prima

• Praise for Eve Chase

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• An enthralling story of secrets, sisters and an unsolved mystery

• Evocative and filled with intrigue

• Eve Chase is a supremo of this genre … an intricately woven novel of suspense and secrets

  Red

• One of the most enthralling novelists of the moment. This is the most beautiful book you will read this year

• Sublime writing, secrets, lovable characters I didn’t want to leave, and a ripping plot twist that kept me guessing. An absolute jewel of a book

• An enticing, chilling plot, captivating characters and prose beautiful enough to totally lose yourself in

  Heat

• Eve Chase is a name to watch

  Daily Mail

• I adored this beautifully written, riveting mystery. Chase is peerless in her ability to stitch together dark secrets and tantalising twists with unforgettable characters and enthralling imagery. I am a die-hard fan!

  Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call

• Exquisite and evocative – and the pace and suspense are handled expertly

• Addictive and delivers atmosphere in spades

  Good Housekeeping

• A mystery of nail-biting suspense

  Woman & Home

• Absorbed me completely. Fabulous

• An engrossing story of fractured families, secrets, lies and misunderstandings

  Sunday Express