Unburied

‘Part intriguing detective story, part chilling description of the cavalier treatment of human remains in nineteenth-century England, Hannah Priest’s Unburied investigates the difference between fact and fiction, uncovering a truth stranger and more complex than 200 years of Gothic razamatazz. Thoroughly researched and engagingly told, here is a story hidden from history, of “an ordinary woman who made an extraordinary decision about her own body”.’ Rosie Garland, author of The Palace of Curiosities ‘A meticulously researched examination of both the truth and fictions of the “Manchester Mummy”. Rich in detail, Hannah Priest’s account provides an unflinching examination of a very strange corpse that is perhaps not so strange at all — at least not for the reasons we might think.’ Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses ‘Hannah Beswick has finally found her amanuensis. In Unburied, the extraordinary story of her mummified body is told at last.’ Viktor Wynd, author of The Unnatural History Museum -- .