The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth Music Nine years ago

Nine years ago

From contrails and Covid-19 to Area 51

She'll never escape this shadow

the central pillars of their lives are the four indomitable elders they call the “Greats

bleak mansion filled with hundreds of eccentric houseguests and one set of emotionally distant (some would say sociopathic) parents

The Specimens: A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth Music Nine years ago"A work of fiction that is both a potent portrait of early 19th century Edinburgh but also a story about female agency or the lack of it. The result is a compelling, painful, haunted piece of work."The Herald Edinburgh, 1828. Two women one rich, one poor must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical discovery, mob mayhem, and murder. The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more