The Specimens
A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth
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Up the close and down the stair, meet the women of Burke and Hare
"Beguiling and atmospheric, this is as much an engrossing character study as a bold reimagining of the infamous anatomy murders."
HEAT MAGAZINE
"A fresh, feminine take on the horrors of Burke and Hare and their complicit Edinburgh anatomists"
SALLY MAGNUSSON
"Gruesomely gripping, this story will stay with you for a long time, its characters so well developed, you fear you might bump into one in a dark Edinburgh close"
SUE LAWRENCE
"Mairi Kidd holds a lantern up to the brutality of women's lives in Burke, Hare and Knox's Edinburgh. She draws a fine thread between women's bodily experiences now and then, and her voice is so authentic I felt as if I was there"
LUCY RIBCHESTER
Mairi Kidd
graduated with a First in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in books ever since. Her novel
The Specimens
- a retelling of the 1828 crimes of Burke and Hare - was Waterstones Scottish
Book of the Month and the short stories from her collection
We Are All Witches
formed the basis for the award-winning 'Heal and Harrow' project.
She lives by the sea in Edinburgh with her illustrator husband and their rescue cat.