The Gilded Cage
By Lucinda Gray
3.5/5
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After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper class England in the 1820s, is shattered when she discovers the corpse of her brother George in a lake on the estate-the tragic accidental drowning of a young man, the coroner reports, despite the wound to George's head.
Katherine is expected to observe the mourning customs and get on with her life, but she can't accept that her brother's death was an accident. A bitter poacher prowls the estate, and strange visitors threaten the occupants of the house. There's a rumor, too, that a wild animal stalks the woods of Walthingham.
Can Katherine retain her sanity long enough to find out the truth? Or will her brother's killer claim her life, too?
Lucinda Gray
Lucinda Gray is the pseudonym of an American novelist who lives in New York.
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Reviews for The Gilded Cage
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Gothic twist on the rags to riches story. George and Katherine face hard work and poverty as orphans in Virginia until George learns that he is the last surviving heir of his grandfather and inheritor of Walthingham Hall. However, as the pair adjust to life in the gentry, George is found dead in what initially appears to be an accidental drowning. However, Katherine cannot accept this judgement placing her in danger of being the next heir to face a tragic demise.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guilded Cageby Lucinda GrayOur story takes place in the 1820's.It begins on a hard working farm in Virginia with the happy,duty filled lives of young Virginia and George Randolph.Brother and sister are notified that they have inherited, from their grandfather, Walthingham Hall in England.Their transfer from a rustic, bucolic environment to the opulenturban society of England is facilitated by cousins already living there.Soon her brother, a fastidious swimmer, mysteriously drowns.The mysteries of Walthingham Hall deepen as poachersprowl the estate and the legend? of a wild animal stalking the woods re-emerges.The novel offers a historical presence with Gothic psychological suspense and murders to be solved.This is the only English work that I found by Lucinda Gray.9 additional Spanish novels were listed on Goodreads .3.5 ★
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph has been thrust into a life very different than the farm in Virginia on which she was raised. After a relative in England dies, Katherine and her brother are willed a massive estate and fortune. After moving to their new home across the Atlantic, Katherine quickly finds that there is much more than lace to her new life. People around her quickly start dying and murmurs of a monster haunt the halls of Walthingham Hall. Katherine may be strong and independent, but Katherine finds herself quite unprepared for her new circumstances. The Gilded Cage is a quick, fun read. There is nothing groundbreaking here - the cast is homogeneous despite Katherine's humble origins and the characters' machinations will be readily apparent to most readers. While Gray has written an engaging story, there are jarring problems in the pacing. Some events gallop by without letting the characters or reader absorb the implications and react accordingly; the whole story feels a bit rushed. Despite this, The Gilded Cage is worth a read, especially for those readers with a weakness for regency romance and mystery.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am deeply amused that this book is essentially a gothic novel (like all the gothic novels mentioned in Jane Austen stories). As such, there's a lot of non-specific brooding tension, mysterious tales of a Fearsome Beast, some slightly ridiculous scenarios and then a rather thrilling and fast-paced set of Terrible Events that finally resolve in a rather unexpected love story. If you read it as a gothic novel (think Ann Radcliffe), then I think you, too, will be amused and delighted. If you are trying to read it as any sort of realistic romance... uh, well, good luck to you?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a lovely Gothic novel! Katherine Randolph grew up in Virginia with her brother George. They were orphaned but taken in by a kind neighbor family. Their lives change immensely when a lawyer comes to call tell them that they have inherited Walthingham Hall in England after the death of a grandfather they never met.They are made welcome by their cousins Henry and Grace Campion but strange things start to happen. There are rumors of beasts in the woods nearby. Almost immediately after their arrival, George is found dead. Katherine suspects foul play the but the older, wiser men including the local magistrate and her cousin are convinced that it was an accident.Katherine is alone with no support except her loyal maid and a footman but both of them are threatened with being let go. She makes a friend with the magistrate's daughter Jane who is in love with Cousin Henry. When her loyal footman suffers an "accident" when out hunting, Katherine knows that she is correct that her brother's death was not an accident.Many exciting things happen before the villain is unveiled and gets his comeuppance but Katherine manages to stay strong, smart, and intrepid despite the things that happen to her. This was a nice romance and had all sorts of scary moments, too.