The Butterfly Cabinet An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era THE BUTTERFLY CABINET by Bernie McGill will appeal to fans of THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX o

An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era, THE BUTTERFLY CABINET by Bernie McGill will appeal to fans of THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX or THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER, and was singled out by Julian Fellowes as his Book of the Year in the Guardian.When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces hAn unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era, THE BUTTERFLY CABINET by Bernie McGill will appeal to fans of THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX or THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER, and was singled out by Julian Fellowes as his Book of the Year in the Guardian.When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces her intention to visit the elderly Maddie, Maddie recognises her last chance to unburden herself of a story that has gnawed at her for sixty years For Maddie, rather like the butterfly cabinet she keeps safely under lock and key, has for too long guarded a secret that of the day a four year old girl died at the big house where she worked as a nanny Finally, Maddie knows, Anna is ready to hear what happened As Maddie s mind drifts back through the years, so too is revealed the story of Charlotte s mother, Harriet Ormond A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet s great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself But her journals reveal a complex truth.
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Bernie McGill lives in Portstewart in Northern Ireland Her first novel The Butterfly Cabinet was published in the UK and Ireland in August 2010 by Headline Review and in the US by Free Press in July 2011 It is available in an Italian translation La donna che collezionava farfalle published by Bollati Boringhieri and in Dutch Charlotte s vleugels published by De Fontein A new edition including new material on the origins of the story appeared in Autumn 2016 by Tinder Press Bernie s new book The Watch House was published by Tinder Press in 2017.Sleepwalkers, Bernie s first collection of short stories, was published in May 2013 by Whittrick Press and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2014 The title story was first prizewinner in the Zoetrope All Story Short Fiction Contest US and the collection includes Home , a supplementary prizewinner in the 2010 Bridport Short Story Prize and No Angel , Second Prizewinner in the Se n Faol in and the Michael McLaverty Short Story Prizes Her work has been anthologised in The Long Gaze Back and in the forthcoming The Glass Shore She is the recipient of a number of Arts Council Awards including an ACES Award in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen s University, Belfast and an award from the Society of Authorsaise for The Butterfly Cabinet McGill has the ability to enter into the brain and heart of her characters and so to make us sympathise with people who commit acts we abhor Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey writing in The Guardian This is a fantastic novel It drenches us in gothic sensibilities as it haunts us with uncomfortable reminders of recent sensational events USA Today An utterly compelling tale Pitch perfect in tone Marie Claire An emotionally bracing, refreshingly intelligent and ultimately heartbreaking story Kirkus Reviews Where McGill succeeds so well is in her language, beautiful and languorous and wild we are caught and held tight Huffington Post An intense exploration of maternal love and guilt Financial Times UK The interplay of the voices of two exceptionally different personalities is perhaps the book s major achievement Minneapolis Star Tribune Dramatic enthralling and beautifully written Good Housekeeping UK A powder keg of domestic suspense that threatens to explode as long kept secrets surrounding Charlotte s death are teased out Publishers Weekly McGill s complex portrait of an unmotherly mother is as skilful and unusual as Lionel Shriver s We Need to Talk About Kevin Sydney Morning Herald