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The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman, Samara MacLaren
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Publisher's summary

The answers to a mystery lie hidden within an old book. Unlock the secrets of The Birdcage Library...

Lose yourself in a rich, spellbinding story of long-buried secrets and dark obsession from Freya Berry, author of The Dictator's Wife, as seen on BBC2 Between the Covers.

Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...

It's 1932 and adventuress and plant-hunter Emily Blackwood accepts a commission from Heinrich Vogel, a former dealer of exotic animals in Manhattan, living now with his macabre collection in a remote Scottish castle.

Emily is tasked to find a long-lost treasure which Heinrich believes has been hidden within the castle walls. But instead she discovers the pages of a diary, written by Hester Vogel, who died after falling from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Hester's diary leads Emily to an old book The Birdcage Library and into a treasure hunt of another kind, one that will take her down a dangerous path for clues, and force her to confront her own darkest secret...

Discover a mystery within a mystery in The Birdcage Library, a novel that will hold you in its spell until the final minute.

©2023 Freya Berry (P)2023 Headline Publishing Group Limited
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Emmie's narrator

I am not sure if it was deliberate given Emmie's ailment, but the narrator sounded breathless and you could physically hear swallowing and breaths taken mid sentence. It was a bit off putting.

Otherwise the story is lovely, just lovely!

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