She is described as “alabaster fair, with long baby-blonde hair,” “attenuated and angular, with milk-white skin, hair almost as fair, and pale blue eyes set very wide apart” with “endless legs,” “chrysoberyl eyes and full lips.” She is also described as a “good-time girl” who “likes them big” (as Strike discovers firsthand). However, Ciara is no vacuous beauty — she has a deferred place to study English at Cambridge University but has chosen to pursue her modeling career first.