The Birdcage Library Audiobook By Freya Berry cover art

The Birdcage Library

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman, Samara MacLaren
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $30.24

Buy for $30.24

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

The answers to a mystery lie hidden within an old book. Unlock the secrets of The Birdcage Library...

Lose yourself in a rich, spellbinding story of long-buried secrets and dark obsession from Freya Berry, author of The Dictator's Wife, as seen on BBC2 Between the Covers.

Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...

It's 1932 and adventuress and plant-hunter Emily Blackwood accepts a commission from Heinrich Vogel, a former dealer of exotic animals in Manhattan, living now with his macabre collection in a remote Scottish castle.

Emily is tasked to find a long-lost treasure which Heinrich believes has been hidden within the castle walls. But instead she discovers the pages of a diary, written by Hester Vogel, who died after falling from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Hester's diary leads Emily to an old book The Birdcage Library and into a treasure hunt of another kind, one that will take her down a dangerous path for clues, and force her to confront her own darkest secret...

Discover a mystery within a mystery in The Birdcage Library, a novel that will hold you in its spell until the final minute.

©2023 Freya Berry (P)2023 Headline Publishing Group Limited Historical Fiction
All stars
Most relevant  
I am not sure if it was deliberate given Emmie's ailment, but the narrator sounded breathless and you could physically hear swallowing and breaths taken mid sentence. It was a bit off putting.

Otherwise the story is lovely, just lovely!

Emmie's narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.