Newes from the Dead, Mary Hooper
Newes from the Dead, Mary Hooper
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Newes from the Dead

Author: Mary Hooper

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor, Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/20/2009

Synopsis

Anne Green can’t move a muscle, can’t open her eyes, can’t scream. She lies paralyzed in absolute darkness, terrified by her final memory—being hanged. Is she in purgatory? Hell? Was she buried alive? An innocent woman caught up in a nightmare, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the man—that led her to the scaffold.Meanwhile, a shy young 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?Haunting, thrilling, and impossible to put down, Newes from the Dead is based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging in 1650 England only to awaken on the dissection table. Newes from the Dead concludes with an excerpt from an original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.

About Mary Hooper

Mary Hooper is the author of more than 60 children’s and young adult books. She has two grown children and lives with her husband Richard in Oxfordshire, England, the same area Anne Green came from.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Willow on December 02, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 24, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Ana on July 01, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Tracey Allen on February 01, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Sabine on July 18, 2015

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

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