Newes from the Dead

<p><</p><p>WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)<br />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.</p><p>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?</p><p>Beautifully written impossible to put down and meticulously researched <em>Newes from the Dead</em> is based on the true story of the real Anne Green a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table. <em>Newes from the Dead</em> concludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.</p><p><em>Newes from the Dead</em> is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.</p>