The Ornatrix

by Kate Howard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468313827
• ISBN13: 9781468313826
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"