Book description
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 in trouble - and
which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal.
Marcia Willett's early life was devoted to the ballet, but her dreams
of becoming a ballerina ended when she grew out of the classical
proportions then required. She had always loved books, and a family
crisis made her take up a new career as a novelist - a decision she has
never regretted. She lives in a beautiful and wild part of Devon with
her husband, where she loves to be visited by her son and his young
family.
