![]() This was one of our summer Squadpod Book Club picks so I’m late reading it, but it feels perfect for this time of year. ![]() Can she discover the truth before it entraps her?Įnthralling, eerie and suspenseful, this had everything I want in a Gothic mystery. But alongside its secrets, a darkness lurks in the crevices of this old castle. After finding the pages of an old diary hidden in the walls, Emily sets out to solve the mystery in its pages. When she arrives at Castle Parras she finds a remote and ruined place inhabited by a peculiar nonagenarian and haunted by the memory of a woman who disappeared fifty years ago. Set in 1930s Scotland, Botanist and Adventuress Emily Blackwood is about to begin a new commission cataloguing the collection of creatures for sale. Gorgeously gothic, dark and forbidding, The Birdcage Library is an absolute masterpiece. Like all such maps, the trail is cryptic. It will lead you to what you ought to seek. The diary you hold in your hands is a treasure map. 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… On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by a woman who vanished five decades before. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. ‘D ark, claustrophobic and clever storytelling’ JANE SHEMILTġ932. ‘I t glistens with a hint of the danger that lurks within ‘ CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘A twisty treasure hunt of a novel… Utterly beguiling’ LIZZIE POOK ‘A delicious page-turning mystery within a mystery’ LIZ HYDER Thank you to Headline for the proof copy of the book.ĭear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me…Ī mesmerising tale of buried secrets and dark obsession with shades of Daphne du Maurier, The Birdcage Library will hold you in its spell until the final page. But this book was more than worth the wait for me. This was one of our summer Squadpod Book Club picks, so I’m late with this review. Welcome to my review for the gorgeously gothic The Birdcage Library.
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