Official Blurb
The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream . . .
1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead.
As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years . . .
My View (no spoilers)A corker of a book, I did find it a hard-going to begin with, being written in a very different style to the last I read, however, once you have the atmospheric Sussex village of Fishbourne formed in your mind, the narrative sweeps you along.
The instantly likeable heroine Connie is a strong and independent woman, protecting and taking care of her drunkard Father a once famous taxidermist of birds. As a result of an accident ten years previously she has lost her childhood memories and pieces them together at the same time as the reader.
The reader is also privy to further information, information about ongoing grizzly and macabre murders that are taking place. As the murders are linked, we begin to see a pattern and make judgements but will Connie see them in time?
I really enjoyed The Taxidermist’s Daughter, the tension builds up and the information is pieced together to an exciting and terrifying conclusion. I would love this to be made into a film but would spend most of it cowering behind the sofa.
☆ ☆ ☆
- Publisher: Orion (3 Sept. 2015)
- ISBN-10: 1409153770
- ISBN-13: 978-140915377
