Based loosely on actual events from Great Britain in the year 1650, this suspenseful novel is told through the alternating and parallel first-person narratives of Anne, a servant girl who has been falsely accused, convicted, and hanged for infanticide, and Robert Matthews, the young, stuttering medical student who is set to perform the autopsy on Anne when he no tices that she may not yet be dead. Rich in period details from daily life and seventeenth-century medical practices, this is a thought-provoking and fairly creepy historical mystery. 2009 USBBY Outstanding International Book, Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age, Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens, Texas TAY SHAS High School Reading List. ae

Originally published by Bodley Head Great Britain, in 2008.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.