by Kate Mosse · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781474625876
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«The Taxidermist's Daughter» is the gothic mystery novel by Kate Mosse, published by Orion Publishing Group, Limited in paperback (432 pages, in English).
In 1912, Constantia Gifford lives with her father, a ruined taxidermist, in a remote village on the English coast. After a childhood accident, she remembers nothing of her past. On St Mark's Eve, a stranger is found dead and her father disappears; then fragments of memory begin to return, pointing to a dark secret in the house.
The novel originally appeared in 2014; it was nominated for the Specsavers National Book Award and the CWA Historical Dagger.
For readers of gothic and historical fiction and for book clubs, for its gothic atmosphere and family background mystery.
Katherine Louise Mosse is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. She co-founded in 1996 the annual award for best UK-published English-language novel by a woman that is now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction, and since 2024 has a sister award, The Women's Prize for Nonfiction.
