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Sussex, 1912: Within a churchyard, villagers collect on the night when the spirits of those who'll pass away in the year ahead are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the ocean, superstitions still maintain sway. Standing together is the taxidermist's little girl. At 17, Constantia Gifford lives with her daddy in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed animals which used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, giving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. The bell starts to toll and everything eyes are fixed on the church. No one perceives the gloved hands grab a flint. As the previous notes fade into the dark, a female lies dead. While the village brackets itself against rising waters and the highest tide of the growing season, Connie struggles to find who is accountable, but locates herself under suspicion. Is Constantia who she seems - is she the victim of circumstances or are more sinister pushes at the job? And what's the secret that lies at the heart of Gifford House, covered one of the bell jars of her father's workshop? Told over one summer, The Taxidermist's Princess is the haunting new novel from the best-selling writer of Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel and The Winter Spirits. Read by Clare Corbett
