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The Birdcage
Author: Marcia Willett

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Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780312996499 - ISBN-10: 0312996497
Publication Date: 6/27/2006
Pages: 400

Book Description:
Marcia Willett’s fans have fallen in love with the English countryside and the wonderful characters that inhabit its idyllic setting. Written with shining honesty and compassion, The Birdcage has every bit of the wonder that Marcia Willett’s fans have come to expect…

THE BIRDCAGE

No one can foresee when life is about to change. For Felix Hamilton, it started with an evening at the theater. There, he first set eyes on the captivating actress Angel Blake, and knew he'd never be the same—an intense, forbidden love was about to turn his world upside down...

The Birdcage, Felix called it. For Angel and her daughter Lizzie, it was home. The funny old house played host to cozy nights and stolen, joy-filled days. Felix and Angel knew those days couldn't last. And little Lizzie couldn't understand how these times would shape her life. Until, years later, a holiday by the sea and a chance encounter reopen the doors to the Birdcage, secrets, and second chances...


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Tricia - Shakopee, MN wrote on 9/2/2009...


Hard to get into the novel.

SALLY W. (thameslink) wrote on 3/23/2008...


Lovely writing, very involving characters...I really cared about what happened between these people. Another great book by Marcia Willett.

Loretta H. (Ravenz) wrote on 3/22/2007...


Trapped in a loveless marriage, Felix begins a passionate affair with Angel, a beguiling young actress and single mother with a similarly enchanting daughter named Lizzie, who comes to think of Felix as the father she never knew. As Felix's attachment for his second family deepens, he dreads the day he may be forced to choose between Angel and Lizzie and his own son.That day comes when his wife discovers his infidelity, her ultimatum forcing Felix to abruptly walk out of Angel's life forever. Some 40 years later, after Angel's death, Lizzie is tormented by a need to find Felix, and get answers to questions that have plagued her for years.


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