I sewed well and quickly, and my eyes were strong. There were gussets under the arms so that he could stretch and move freely, as he had to. The linen was fine and I had measured him exactly. He didn’t like to see me sewing when we were together-I should send the work out, he said-but he would change his mind when he put on the shirt. Sarah and Philo had gone to their attic, while I sat by the fire, in a good light, with my work. It was past nine o’clock now and he was still absent. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance, and terror from one of our greatest storytellers. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants-his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Tormented and striving, Diner believes that Lizzie’s independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. 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. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.
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