What a very clever book, it keeps you guessing right until the very end .Set in Cornwall with great characters ,three very different half sisters and their famous artist Dad who calls his daughters all together to Rock Point to make an announcement !!! Set in two timelines 1999 and 2019 and told through the sisters I really enjoyed this atmospheric thriller full of secrets I think he real star was the wonderful old house Rock Point .Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC.

Kat, Flossie and Lauren are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. Each has found a 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 fathers most celebrated painting, Girls with Birdcage, reunites them. Rock Point is a beautiful, windswept palace, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the one subject the family daren't discuss. And there's someone is watching the house. Someone who remembers what the girls did.

This is a mujltilayered story with elements of surprise. The sisters are attending their fathers house in Cornwall where he is going to make a surprise announcement. The sisters are dreading the reunion, they have avoided each other for years. The story is told from the three sisters perspectives

in alternating chapters. The secret they share happened during the 1999 eclipse. The story flips back and forth from the present day and the summer of 1999. There's lots of little twists and one big one that made the rest of the story easy to work out.

I would like to thank #NetGalley #PenguinMichaelJosephUK and the author #EveChase for my ARC of #TheBirdcage in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book but I found it very melancholy, sad and pretty heartbreaking.

It’s a story of a immensely disfunctional family, forced together through a shared father, of lives lived not fitting in, wishing for better relationships, of childhood memories full of sadness and uncertainty.

I make this sound all depressing, and it is, but it’s written very well and it’s an enjoyable read honestly!

My thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review

Lauren, Kat and Flora are summoned to Rock Point by their father. Its twenty years since they have been there when he painted the famous Girls and the Birdcage.
It was the year of he eclipse and the summer they will never forget.
But what is the truth of that summer? Who is lying and who has never forgotten? Are there more secrets to be revealed?

This is a well written book, it is part thriller, part family drama. It has some interesting storylines, great characters a d develops well.

Requested this novel purely on description. However,I couldn't relate to characters and pace was too slow. Thanks netgally fir giving me the opportunity to read the book

Really interesting read, presents itself like a mystery but ends up feeling more about family dynamics. As someone from a similar family structure, I found the tension between the sisters well done. The writing style appealed to me as well. Chase creates a vivid image of the house, beautifully weaving through years of life there. It feels inevitable that everything leads back there.

It didn't quite tap into the heart of it all for me. I understood their reactions but it didn't draw me in emotionally. But I did enjoy it overall and I'm glad I picked it up.

Wow! An exceptional read. I’m a huge fan of Eve Chase having thoroughly enjoyed all of her books. This one, for me is her best yet. It has mystery, suspense, family secrets and a smattering of romance. The story is told in an easy to follow dual timeline alternating between 1999 and 2019. Kat, Flora and Lauren are half sisters sharing the same father. All are very different characters. When younger the girls would all visit their eccentric famous artist father every august at Rock Point his Cornish home. In 1999 during their annual visit a tragedy occurs on the day of the eclipse. This incident has never been spoken about since then and they are all unable to move on. In January 2019 they each receive an invitation from their father to a family reunion at Rock Point as he has an announcement to make. The sisters are all reluctant to attend with the secrets of the day of the tragedy weighing heavily on them. Gradually the shocking secrets are revealed one at a time, page after page. Grabbed me on the first page and I couldn’t put it down! Highly recommend. My thanks to Vicki Photiou Michael Joseph Uk and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this fabulous book.

After thoroughly enjoying The Glass House, I was very much looking forward to The Birdcage and had high hopes for it and it certainly lived up to them.

This was a fantastic and gripping story about 3 sisters and the mystery surrounding what really happened that summer, 20 years ago. Someone is watching. They haven’t forgotten. They’ll make sure that Kat, Lauren & Flossie haven’t forgotten either. Told in a dual timeline and it wonderfully captures the stunning Cornish coast.

A recommended read.

Thank you to Micheal Joseph UK and Netgalley for an ARC of this story in exchange for an honest review.

It’s odd, I have a couple of Eve’s previous books, but even though I’ve seen nothing but good reviews, I’ve never actually read them, so this was my first proper foray into the world of Eve Chase. And it started with a gorgeous front cover.

I did find the jumping between points-of-view and time periods a bit confusing at times. Once you’ve finished it, it is blindingly obvious why this writing style was chosen, but if you’re like me, it will take a little bit of time to wrap your head around who is talking, and where and when they are, but do persevere with it.

Eve has an exquisite concept of character and place and time. There is a subtlety to Eve’s writing; the words are like a gentle brushstroke - but they bring up such powerful memories and emotions.

Each character - particularly the three half-sisters - are so well rounded and completely their own person. There are identifiable qualities, both good and bad, that seem frighteningly familiar to me.

Whilst the story is wrapped up nicely, to me, there is a certain ambiguity at times which allows the reader to get involved and come up with some answers themselves.

It’s a heavy-going book that, at times, really messes with your mind, but at the end, you’ll find you have more than a little tear in your eye.

Three sisters of similar age - one father but three different mothers. A good premise for a book about a dysfunctional family. Every August they spend time together with the father at a large house in Cornwall. The story is set over two timelines 20 years apart. A terrible incident happened during the eclipse which changed their lives although not everyone is aware of all that happened. I did not connect with the characters and found the book very slow. I was glad when I finished it but was not really happy with the outcome.
Thank you to NetGalley and Michael Joseph UK for the advance copy of this book.

I liked this book.
Set in Cornwall, it is a story about sisters. The time is 1999 when there was a solar eclipse. The story jumps back and forth to twenty years on from the summer when the sisters meet up at their fathers home and where they had all experienced the eclipse. It is an emotional mystery story that is layered in many ways. It is atmospheric and gripping. Rock Point where the family home was seems a beautiful windswept place, with a secret. The book is a page turner and I look forward to reading more by this author.

I was really looking forward to this book, I love a mystery and I love books set somewhere I can visualise like Cornwall, and although extremely well written and a very good plot there was something fundamentally missing for me. I’m not even entirely sure what was missing but there was definitely something because I kept losing track somehow and it wasn’t because it’s set in two timelines twenty years apart . I didn’t ‘feel’ the characters, didn’t connect with them . I read to the end and enjoyed the story but it was a slow read for me. Obviously this is only a personal opinion, it just didn’t grab me.

The three 'Finch' half sisters are summoned to their father's huge, decrepit house in January 2019 on the remote Cornish Coast - they don't know why, but their father has an announcement to make. The half-sisters don't have an easy relationship due to resentments and jealousies stemming from their mothers who had overlapping relationships with their self-indulgent artist father (who never really grew up). Each has felt like they have to fight for their father's attention, except Lauren who met the rest of the family later, and just feels like an outsider.

The story is told in two timelines. Something is haunting this family, straining their relationships to the present and no-one has been honest about what happened on'Eclipse Day' August 1999. We just know that the repercussions are still being felt. Clues are revealed as the story is told; the personal interests that have been protected have prohibited everyone from moving on; and no-one had a decent role-model to follow.

But it's ultimately a story of a family healing and learning. I loved it, the tension was superb, as were the characters. A real cosy, 'snuggle up and read' book!

Eve has written an atmospheric novel about three sisters- half! meeting up together at their fathers request when they are much older. There was always some conflict between them as young children especially after something happened. In the story they try to come together and sort things out. An enjoyable story in which you can lose yourself.

A beautifully written book about family secrets that have been kept for 20 years and more - is it now time for them to be released? Three sisters, Flora, Kat and Laurie, are summoned back to the family home in Cornwall by their father. He has news to share with them all - but by asking the girls to return, will he be uncovering more than his news?

A dual timeline, summer of 1999, and winter of 2019, written from the points of view of all three girls. I really liked the relationships portrayed, and the way the author cleverly left you with a cliffhanger at the end of a chapter that automatically fed into another at the start of the next. I really enjoyed the style of writing, and will certainly be looking out for more by this author.

Really sorry to say I struggled with this book. I didn't connect with the characters. I also found the pace of the book to be too slow. I am happy to see other readers enjoyed it more.

My thanks to Netgalley for my copy of The Birdcage. This is a wonderful story with beautifully well drawn, interesting characters. However, for myself, I feel it was a little bit too drawn out. Hopefully my copy was pre-edit as there were a large amount of errors.

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Eve Chase writes the most stunning mysteries. The cover really does set the tone for the beautiful descriptions in the book, I felt as if I was in Cornwall and could hear all the birds.

I felt the pace of this book was spot on, it wasn’t too slow that I got bored but information was drip fed enough to keep me guessing and intrigued.

Although I liked the character development, I didn’t really feel that any of the characters were particularly likeable. I would have also liked to see the relationship between lauren and her love interest in more detail.

Such a beautiful cover! There is a very good air of mystery that pervades and tantalises you and you get Cornwall thrown into the bargain! The pace is good throughout, there’s plenty of tension, moments of suspense, it becomes a bit dark at time as truths emerge which releases characters from its bonds. It builds well and has an ending I enjoyed too. Overall a compelling story!