![]() ![]() As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead. No one sees the gloved hands holding a garotte. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. The string of events that led to the museum's closure are never spoken of and an accident has robbed Connie of any memory of those days. The stuffed birds that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. ![]() At twenty-two, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it contains all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to walk. ![]()
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