Some Rise By Sin

<p><strong>I felt I was eavesdropping on genuine 19th-century grave robbers . . . the author's skilled prose . . . convinced me. I felt I was there in the rough and tumble streets of 1830s London. Grotesque pathetic yet with poignant moments of calm and welcome humour.</strong></p><p><strong>-TRACY CHEVALIER</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>This book is a masterpiece ... <em>Some Rise by Sin</em> is a dark dark book though often hilarious and with a masterful voice. Buy this book immediately.</strong></p><p><strong>-NICK MAMATAS</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Si��n Scott-Wilson seems very much to be a writer after my own heart. <em>Some Rise By Sin</em> proved pretty much impossible to put down ... masterfully plotted and presented with indelible characters.</strong></p><p><strong>-ALAN MOORE</strong></p><p><br></p><p>1829 is a tough year to be a body snatcher. Burke and Hare have just been convicted of killing people to sell their bodies to widespread outrage-but despite the bad press doctors still need fresh corpses for medical research.</p><p><br></p><p>Sammy and Facey are a couple of so-called 'resurrection men' making a living among society's fringe-dwellers by hoisting the newly departed from the churchyards of London whilst masquerading as late-night bakers. Operating on tip-offs and rumours in the capital's drinking dens and fighting pits the pair find themselves in receipt of some valuable intelligence: an unusual cadaver has popped up on the market that of a hermaphrodite.</p><p><br></p><p>For any medic worth his salt it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity-a medical curiosity and rara avis-and famous anatomist Joshua Brookes commissions the two men to obtain the body at any cost. But some corpses hold secrets and before long the enterprise becomes a deadlier and more complex undertaking than either man could ever have imagined.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Some Rise by Sin</em> is a rich authentic and absorbing historical narrative with a darker edge a story of surviving on the outskirts of respectability. With echoes of Michel Faber's <em>The Crimson Petal and the White</em> it is meticulously researched and suffused with the dark and grimy atmosphere of Regency London and explores what ambition can mean for poor people in a society that conspires to grind them down at every turn.</p>