ABOUT THE BOOK:

Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End.

She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination.

But then a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him The Man of Crows.

And as Catherine devours the news, she finds she can channel the voices of the dead, and comes to believe she will eventually channel The Man of Crows himself.

But the murders continue to panic the city and Catherine gradually realizes she is snared in a deadly trap, where nothing is as it first appears.

And lurking behind the lies Catherine has been told are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure ...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kate Williams studied at Somerville College, Oxford where she was a College Scholar and received the Violet Vaughan Morgan University Scholarship.

She then took her MA at Queen Mary, University of London and her DPhil at Oxford.

Kate's first book was 'England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton' and her second, 'Becoming Queen', was about the passionate youth of Queen Victoria and Princess Charlotte.

She was also a consultant on the movie 'Young Victoria' which starred Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

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