The Taxidermist's Daughter (33 page)

About the Author

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Her fiction includes the novels
Labyrinth
,
Sepulchre
,
The Winter Ghosts
, and
Citadel
, as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories,
The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales
, three works of non-fiction and three plays.

Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an
OBE
in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She lives in Sussex.

www.katemosse.co.uk

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Also by Kate Mosse

The Languedoc Novels

Labyrinth

Sepulchre

Citadel

Gothic Fiction

The Winter Ghosts

The Mistletoe Bride

& Other Haunting Tales

Non-Fiction

Becoming a Mother

The House: Behind the Scenes at the

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty

Plays

Syrinx

Endpapers

Dodger

Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Orion Books

This eBook first published in 2014 by Orion Books

Copyright © Mosse Associates Ltd 2014

The right of Kate Mosse to be identified as the author

of this work has been asserted in accordance with

the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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published without a similar condition, including this condition,

being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

All the characters in this book are fictitious,

and any resemblance to actual persons living

or dead is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this book

is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978 1 4091 5378 8

Illustration © Jack Penny 2014

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