The resurrectionist / A. Rae Dunlap.

Manchester : HarperNorth, 2025.

336 pages ; 20 cm

1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. A shining beacon of medical discovery in the age of New Enlightenment, Scotland's leading university offers everything James desires - except the chance to work on a human cadaver. For that, he needs to join one of the private schools in Surgeon's Square, at a cost he cannot afford. In desperation, he strikes a deal with Nye MacKinnon, a dashing young dissectionist with an artist's eye for anatomy and a reckless passion for knowledge. Nye promises to help James gain the surgical experience he craves - by inviting him into the illicit world of body snatching. Intoxicated by Nye and his noble mission, James rapidly descends into the underground ranks of the Resurrectionists - the grave robbers infamous for stealing fresh corpses from churchyards to be used as anatomical specimens.

9780008711566 (pbk)

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