I bought this book because of the cover. It’s so beautiful and clever.
The story is a gothic love story set during the early 1800s in Edinburgh. Hazel wants to become a surgeon – a profession not available to a lady. She’s promised in marriage to a viscount (her cousin Bernard, whom she’s known since childhood).
Jake is a bodysnatcher (or ‘Resurrection man’ as he’d prefer), who removes bodies from graves and sells them to the doctors to practice on.
The story touches on medicine at the time and the differences between what life was like in the different classes of society. It’s quite gruesome, in places. At the core of it, it’s still a love story.
I enjoyed it a lot.
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Jeevani Charika and Rhoda Baxter 