Newes from the Dead

This is kind of an odd little book. It wasn’t very suspenseful to me, because I pretty much knew what was going to happen. In fact, I actually found this book by reading up on Anne Green in Wikipedia. Mary Hooper did an excellent job of writing the story out. Hooper has an amazing prose which is sim......more

The premise is intriguing - a young woman is hung for infanticide, even though her baby is stillborn. She is put in a coffin and sent to Oxford, where she will be dissected for medical research. However, we soon find she is not really dead. The story is told in flashbacks, between how she got in her......more

Such an original and interesting concept (although based on recorded historical events)! It didn’t seem “Young Adult” to me at all. Excellent writing. I only wish it was longer.......more

A quick check tells me Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper was published in 2008, added to my virtual TBR pile back in 2016, and it has taken me until now to finally get around to requesting it from the library. Thankfully books wait for us no matter how many years it takes, and the premise that caug......more

Das Buch beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit, denn Anne Green hat es tatsächlich gegeben. Die 16-jährige wurde im Jahr 1650 zu Unrecht zum Tod durch den Strang verurteilt und sollte danach auch noch seziert werden. Doch als sich die namhaften Mediziner versammelt haben und mit dem ersten Schnitt be......more