The Birdcage
Published by Transworld Jacket photography: Arlene Jean Gee and Eric Gevaert Design: Stephen Mulcahey
Stoke Pero Church on Exmoor -
were brought up from Porlock Weir carried by a donkey.
It was Felix who named it The Birdcage—the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress, Angel, and Angel’s daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so in love with Angel but, while Lizzie longed for a father, Felix had other commitments: to his insecure, possessive wife Marina and to their son Piers, both living at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor.
Many years later, when Lizzie comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers for the first time, she finds a family that is in trouble—and which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal.
