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The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession, and deceit by a talented new author In this exquisitely dark debut, Kate Howard delivers a stirring tale on the cost of beauty, packed with suspense and period detail worthy of Kate Mosse, Jessie Burton, and Tracy Chevalier. Cursed from birth by the bird-shaped blemish across her face, Flavia spends much of her life hidden from the outside world. Lonely and alienated even from her family, she sabotages her sister's wedding in a fit of jealous rage and is exiled to serve in the convent of Santa Giuliana. Soon she finds that another exile dwells in the convent: a former Venetian courtesan named Ghostanza whose ostentatious appearance clashes with the otherwise austere convent and sparks gossip throughout the town. When Ghostanza claims Flavia as her ornatrix—her personal hairdresser and handmaid—Flavia is pulled into a world of glamor and concealment where admiration is everything and... FIC000000 FICTION / General FIC014000 FICTION / Historical FIC043000 FICTION / Coming of Age

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Author

Kate Howard

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468314120

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (140 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14