1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford
lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious
accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past - whilst her
father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the
closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.
A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard - and a few miles away,
two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a
major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one
woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the
horrifying crimes of the past.
The Taxidermist's Daughter is a thrilling Gothic story of violence,
retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her
own internationally best-selling novel, and first performed at
Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022, directed by Róisín McBrinn.