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ANATOMY

Dana Schwartz

A Love Story

A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.
Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham's lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Without official lessons, though, Hazel will need more than just her books - she'll need bodies to study, corpses to dissect. Lucky that she's made the acquaintance of someone who digs them up for a living, then. But Jack has his own problems: strange men have been seen skulking around cemeteries, his friends are disappearing off the streets. Hazel and Jack work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves, but in the very heart of Edinburgh society. Dana Schwartz is a wildly talented writer of books, TV shows, Marvel comic books, and podcasts. She is the author of three books: the memoir Choose Your Own Disaster, the humor tome The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon and the YA novel And We're Off. She also wrote her first comic book for Marvel: Deadpool Annual #1. She is the creator of the history podcast Noble Blood which reached No. 1 on the iTunes podcast chart this summer. Additionally, Schwartz is a regular co-host on the Crooked Media podcast Hysteria. Her writing has been published in Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, GQ, and Vanity Fair and touches upon wide-ranging hot topics including the definition of a romcom (Entertainment Weekly), hapless twentysomethings (The New Yorker), and Wonder Woman's greatest power (Marie Claire). She lives in Los Angeles.
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Published 2022-02-22 by Wednesday Books/ Macmillan

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Lionhearted heroine you'll root for from page one? Check. Dark academia vibes? Check. Cheeky romantic banter that will make you blush? Check, check and CHECK. Read this gripping, ridiculously clever tale only if you're fully prepared to be haunted by its revelations about life and death while also swooning at the idea of flirting with someone in an open grave.

Diabolically delightful. A love story, a murder mystery, and a horror novel bound up together in ghoulish stitches.

France: Albin Michel ; Italy: Mondadori ; Russia: AST ; Spain: Planeta

Anatomy: A Love Story is a gothic romance set against the backdrop of [nineteenth-century] Edinburgh, and follows an aspiring young female surgeon, the resurrection man who brings her bodies to study, and a reclusive aristocrat who tempts them both with immortality. Read more...

Irreverent, intelligent, and smart. Dana Schwartz is one of the brightest of the next generation of young writers.

A fast-paced, utterly engrossing tale of mystery, romance, and cadavers.