A gothic delight from Karen Maitland, author of the bestselling and much-loved Company of LiarsAn atmospheric and dark story...
Karen Maitland knows how to wrap you up in the darkest wings of medieval storytelling
Highly recommended
Beautifully written by one of today's great masters of medieval historical fiction
A potent brew of mystery and menace... good for a winter's night
Karen Maitland is an historical novelist, lecturer and teacher of Creative Writing, with over twenty books to her name. She grew up in Malta, which inspired her passion for history, and travelled and worked all over the world before settling in the United Kingdom. She has a doctorate in psycholinguistics, and now lives on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.