Recommended Book



Two friends, in different parts of the country, recommended this book to me this week.

How is it a person goes months, years even, with nobody recommending a good book; then two people recommend the same book in one week?  It's not as if it is a new release. My theory is that it must be worth reading.  I am going to a friend in Brighton tomorrow for a few days, I think I shall get this to read on the train.  This is what I found when I googled the book... 



'WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!) Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory—of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the man—that led her to the gallows. Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive? Beautifully written, impossible to put down, and meticulously researched, Newes from the Dead is based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table. Newes from the Dead concludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.'


Hmm... should hold my attention on a four hour train journey!