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The Birdcage Library

Author(s): Freya Berry

Location(s): Manhattan, Scotland

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery

Era(s): 1880s/1930s

1932. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale.

On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by a woman who vanished five decades before. 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…

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