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Original Title:	The Taxidermist's Daughter
ISBN:	1409153754 (ISBN13: 9781409153757)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781409153757
Literary Awards:	Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year (2014), CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Nominee for Shortlist (2015)

The Taxidermist's Daughter

Kate Mosse

Hardcover | Pages: 409 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 8992 Users | 1064 Reviews

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Title	:	The Taxidermist's Daughter
Author	:	Kate Mosse
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 409 pages
Published	:	September 11th 2014 by Orion
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Gothic. Thriller

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The enthralling new novel from the bestselling author of The Winter Ghosts, Citadel and Labyrinth.

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway.

Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At 17, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed animals that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man.

The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.

While the village braces itself against rising waters and the highest tide of the season, Connie struggles to discover who is responsible, but finds herself under suspicion. Is Constantia who she seems - is she the victim of circumstances or are more sinister forces at work? And what is the secret that lies at the heart of Gifford House, hidden among the bell jars of her father's workshop?

Told over one summer, The Taxidermist's Daughter is the haunting new novel from the bestselling author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel and The Winter Ghosts.

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The ghosts of all whom death shall doom within the coming year, in pale procession walk the gloom, amid the silence drear.'' James Montgomery, 'The Vigil of St.Mark', 1813Our story starts in Sussex in 1912. It is the night before St.Mark's day, a night of spirits and shadows, when the living hide themselves to see the souls of the dead parading in the church yard. ''This is no place for the dead.'' But the souls are not dead yet. They are the images of those who will die during the coming

This was a much darker tale than I was expecting. Not that that's a bad thing, it is a gothic novel after all. But it just didn't quite do it for me. Certainly there is beauty in the writing, particularly in the descriptions of the village of Fishbourne, and I did enjoy the read, but the beginning was rather slow and didn't pick up until about half way through the story. Also, I found the ending something of a cliche. But, like I said, I did enjoy it overall and I do like Kate Mosse's work



A really nicely paced and very well written gothic thriller from Kate Mosse. I have read the rest of Mosse's work and was suprised to find this book was very different. Both the story and style marks something quite new.The story , set in Edwardian England,centres around Connie and her gradual remembering of her life before a childhood accident while the past is catching up on quite nastily on most of the other characters around her. Taxidermy plays a big role in the plot without being boring,

Jackdaws, magpies, crows, and more, I love birds from the Corvidae family, and they were the perfect Gothic inspiration for Kate Mosse's gruesome historical novel, THE TAXIDERMIST'S DAUGHTER. This dark mystery centers around Connie, the daughter of a taxidermist - she, too, is one - and her quest to solve the mystery of a young woman's murder. The story hooked me right away with its Poe-esque atmosphere. Chilling! The mystery itself was puzzling, twisty, and complex. Taxidermy give me the

Blackthorn House was a place you didn't want to visit.Blackthorn House had the odd Gifford family living there.Blackthorn House had secrets.Connie Gifford and her father lived at Blackthorn House and were well known for their taxidermy, but no one ever came around any more for visits or taxidermy.What had happened to make them outcasts? Was it because of their business? Was it because Connie had had an accident many years ago and sort of became a recluse? Was it because her father was quite odd

A gothic tale set in Sussex, England with dark and sinister settings and characters. It is a story of revenge for past wrongs by powerful men. Connie, the main character, had a severe head injury when she was twelve so she does not have many memories of her childhood. Her father is a man who drinks to forget things in his past who was once well known as a stuffer of birds. Connie is the one who does most of the work on running the household and the taxidermy business. As Connie pieces together