Birdcage Walk

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.

'Hers are expert hands at turning history into gripping fiction.' -- The Times
'Helen Dunmore ... is a poet as well as a novelist, who is celebrated for her delicate language and acute observations.' -- Sunday Times

Helen Dunmore was a British poet, novelist and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels Zennor in Darkness, A Spell of Winter and The Siege, and her last book of poetry Inside the Wave. She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, the National Poetry Competition, and posthumously the Costa Book Award. She died in 2017. Emma's audiobook recordings include Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand, Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister, An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman and Backpack by Emily Barr, as well as the audio drama, Six Degrees of Assassination by M.J. Arlidge. Her recent stage work includes Wuthering Heights (Tour), Twelfth Night with Honey­Tongued Theatre (Dubrovnik) and Alice with Creation Theatre (Oxford).

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