- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Press (2 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0593051238
- ISBN-13: 978-0593051238
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 14.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 534,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A glorious new novel from the author of THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
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It was Felix who first called it The Birdcage – that strange and quirky household in Bristol with its close, loving women including the superbly flamboyant Angel. Angel’s daughter Lizzie had loved living there as a child – and she had also loved Felix, the nearest she had to a father, whose loyalties had been strained to the limit by his deeply jealous wife Marina. Lizzie was always aware that Felix had another life at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor where he tried to bring up his son Piers in a loving and peaceful environment. When Lizzie, many years later, comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers for the first time, she finds a family which is in trouble – and which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this book even more than the other Marcia Willett novels I have read. The depth of characterisation was excellent and I quickly became involved, even engrossed, not wanting to put the book down. I sympathised with Felix even though he was cheating on his wife because she gave him such a hard time. It seemed extremely clever to weave the past and the present together in this way, using the one to make sense of the other. The author knew just which words to use and her description of what it feels like to be abandoned by a partner was written with great sensitivity. I also loved the vivid conversations, so well constructed and startling. This is a book to keep on one's bookshelf to re-read in future and to savour favourite sections. I would probably choose where Lizzie plays the actress role to the full when she meets the lovely Alison for the first time. Marcia Willett excels in her ability to portray the rich variety of human relationships.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The Birdcage was the last novel of Marcia Willett's I read before deciding that I must re-locate to the West Country. This book changed my life!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd always enjoyed Marcia Willett's novels as a comfort read - undemanding, relaxing, but not mindless chick-lit. Fergus changed all that. I was looking to move from the S.E. after retirement and when I read about Fergus in his hotel room in Porlock I knew this was where I wanted to be. Dunster, Porlock and Watchet feature in most of her books and I sit here in Watchet writing this in awe.
Story - wonderful.
Impact - life-changing.
Message - please keep writing these delightful novels which make one think - but not too much. And then go on to make a life-change. Book is bliss - life is bliss.
For me this shows Marcia Willett's power of the pen to seduce oh so quietly.
I'd always enjoyed Marcia Willett's novels as a comfort read - undemanding, relaxing, but not mindless chick-lit. Fergus changed all that. I was looking to move from the S.E. after retirement and when I read about Fergus in his hotel room in Porlock I knew this was where I wanted to be. Dunster, Porlock and Watchet feature in most of her books and I sit here in Watchet writing this in awe.
Story - wonderful.
Impact - life-changing.
Message - please keep writing these delightful novels which make one think - but not too much. And then go on to make a life-change. Book is bliss - life is bliss.
For me this shows Marcia Willett's power of the pen to seduce oh so quietly.
Format:Paperback
This was the first of Marcia Willett's novels I picked up, and also happens to be my favourite. Her warm style, vivid characters, and the way she seamlessly intertwined the past and present makes this a truly unforgettable read.
Now that both her mother Angel and her mother's close friend Pidge are dead, the links to Lizzie's lively and rather eccentric childhood have been severed. Yet, while sorting through some of Angel's things, Lizzie discovers a postcard that brings the past flooding back. She remembers Felix, her mother's lover who spent many a weekend with them and who became almost a father to her. Suddenly she is seized by the crazy idea to find Felix and recapture some of the magic of those long ago times.
Still bruised after a relationship break-up, uncertain as to where her life is going, Lizzie goes to Michaelgarth, Felix's family home in Exmoor. Not only does she find Felix, now an old man, but a family in desperate need of help, and it seems that warm-hearted Lizzie might be the very person they've been waiting for.
Sit back, relax and let yourself be carried along by this wonderful story.
Now that both her mother Angel and her mother's close friend Pidge are dead, the links to Lizzie's lively and rather eccentric childhood have been severed. Yet, while sorting through some of Angel's things, Lizzie discovers a postcard that brings the past flooding back. She remembers Felix, her mother's lover who spent many a weekend with them and who became almost a father to her. Suddenly she is seized by the crazy idea to find Felix and recapture some of the magic of those long ago times.
Still bruised after a relationship break-up, uncertain as to where her life is going, Lizzie goes to Michaelgarth, Felix's family home in Exmoor. Not only does she find Felix, now an old man, but a family in desperate need of help, and it seems that warm-hearted Lizzie might be the very person they've been waiting for.
Sit back, relax and let yourself be carried along by this wonderful story.
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