- Title:
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Birdcage Walk
- Written by:
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Helen Dunmore
- Read by:
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Emma Fenney
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 9 minutes
- Published:
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March 02 2017
- Available Date:
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March 02 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489388537
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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'Hers are expert hands at turning history into gripping fiction.'
The Times
The wonderful new novel from Helen Dunmore, bestselling author of The Lie and Exposure.
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.
Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism.
But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat.
Diner believes that Lizzie’s independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants.
In a tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror, Diner’s passion for Lizzie darkens until she finds herself dangerously alone.
'Helen Dunmore ... is a poet as well as a novelist, who is celebrated for her delicate language and acute observations.'
Sunday Times