A Secret of Birds & Bone

In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia’s mother carves beautiful

mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one day, she

doesn’t return home. Did her work lead her into danger?

Sofia and her little brother Ermin are sent to the convent orphanage

but soon escape, led by an enigmatic new friend and their

pet crow, Corvith.

Together they cross the city underground, following clues in bones

up to the towers of Siena, where - circled by magpies - the

children find the terrible truth …

The fourth children’s novel by Times number

one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the Waterstones

Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Awards Children’s

Book of the Year.

From the author of The Island at the End of Everything,

The Way Past Winter and The Deathless

Girls.

A darkly beautiful historical novel featuring Kiran’s

trademark magical realism and an enthralling mystery.