Newes from the Dead

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We meet a number of characters and get to know them, some of whom are quite like-able, while others are not so much! We meet Robert, a scholar of New College in Oxford, who takes quite an interest in the corpse laid before him, wondering, almost worrying about her. We learn of Master Geoffrey and his unwanted advances, and of his grandfather Sir Thomas who will go to any length to protect his family. This book is descriptive and imaginative, and I feel that you learn about what life was like back then it was certainly nowhere as easy at life is for us these days.

Mary Hooper has taken an event in history and made it into an interesting story in which we get to know the fateful Anne Green. At the end of the book in a chapter titled "Author's Notes", Mary Hooper tells us how she came across the story of Anne Green and what was fact in the story and what she's made-up from imagination and research.

This, again, adds to the whole story. I simply had to read it! I'm glad to have read this book and I think it would make an interesting read for anyone from teenagers in school to the blissfully retired. I'd have enjoyed reading this in school get it on the syllabus, if it's not already there! Oct 14, Lady of the Lake rated it really liked it Shelves: Anne was convicted of infanticide after giving birth to a child that she swore never drew a breath and by written a count of mid wife that examined the child, stated it could never have been a viable birth being only 9 inches in length and not well formed Anne was sentenced anyway by a court of law which at the time was made up of landed gentry who easily sided with the master of the house who besmirched Anne as a whore and loose woman as to take the blame from his grandson.

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Which was what had happened. She was hanged, and even the accounts tell of family members hanging from her legs and lifting and jerking her body downward as to hasten her death, as well as pounding her about the chest. She hung for 3o minutes it's said and a doctor finding no heartbeat or pulse pronounced her dead. Her corpse was given to a group of medical doctors for dissection I'll leave it all off here as it's not a long read but one that produced much emotion from me.

No support from others in the home as this story went, not being of record however that she was treated poorly and unfairly by the other servants and no one would believe her story or back her word as I'm sure they would have been afraid for their own positions in the house if they were shown to support the "wench" who accused the masters grandson.

I listened to this in audio form and once again found the narrators, two for this story, Rosalind Landor and Michael Page, excellent. Each taking a chapter as the story went back and forth from Annes POV to the others. Stories like this fascinate me in general and this being taken from the genuine account of the time was written well by author, Mary Hooper. This is labeled as a young adult historical fiction but definitely not lacking for adults.

Perhaps if it wasn't based on fact I would find it lacking and feel it could have been, should have been built upon. However the fact that it IS based on an actual event in history I think the author did a fine job of getting the facts in and sticking to what the norms would be at the time adding just enough of a back story. Mar 16, Doja rated it it was amazing. Newes from the Dead Book Review 2 By: I expected this novel to be a horrifying tale that will blow my socks off.

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Instead, I read a gruesome, foul and suspenseful book that kept me at the edge of my seat. Newes from the Dead is about a girl named Anne Green main character who finds herself in darkness, unable to move, blink her eyes or scream. Newes from the Dead is a great, mind twisting book written in two stories intertwined. This novel portrays feelings of many genres. I would shelf this book as horror, mystery, fiction and historical.

I have never read so many odd yet powerful words at one time. Newes from the Dead is a monstrous story that I would recommend to all readers as there is a mixture of everything in there. Apr 26, Kate rated it really liked it Shelves: Anne Green was just your average English maid in She worked for a noble family and didn't get along well with her other servants, when the grandson of her master began to show her some extra attention.

Poor Anne was not used to being an object of desire and eventually gave into the grandson, wooed by promises that he would raise her up out of poverty and make her a lady. Anne's situation worsened when she found that she was pregnant.

She tried to hide her pregnancy but eventually gave birt Anne Green was just your average English maid in She tried to hide her pregnancy but eventually gave birth to a still born child, when it was discovered everyone was shocked, and even more shocked by news of who the father was. To hide his family's embarrassment, her lord had Anne convicted of infanticide and sentenced to hang. Anne walked to the scaffold on a cold winter morning, protesting her innocence until she was eventually pushed off the ladder. She hung by the neck for over thirty minutes with relatives hanging on her legs and beating her breast to speed her on her way.

Her body was given to a medical school to be dissected for the benefit of science but shortly before the doctors were to cut into Anne's belly, a student noticed her eyelids twitching. I listened to this on audio and I really liked it. Anne is enveloped in darkness, unsure of where she is but supposing it to be purgatory she begins to relate her tale, alternating chapters with the medical student who first notices her eyelid movement.

There is a great afterward that includes some of the original documents telling of Anne Green's amazing escape from death. A top-dollar children's historical packed with information about the 16th century but never seeming overly educational or preachy. Mary Hooper has taken a real-life snipping of history: The author takes the unusual step of having two strands throughout the narrative depicted in alternating chapters. One set are set in the novel's current ti A top-dollar children's historical packed with information about the 16th century but never seeming overly educational or preachy.

One set are set in the novel's current time, detailing efforts to revive Anne's body, while the other set of chapters follow the events that led to Anne being there in the first place. I found both strands equally interesting; the post-hanging chapters because of the wealth of medical detail and character interplay, and the 'history' chapters because of their gripping inevitability and the facts we learn about servant life in a manor house in the mid 16th century.

Anne is a thoroughly sympathetic, empathetic leading character and, although this is a young adult book, we veer into some very sinister territory with lots of dark passages about seduction, pregnancy and the death of a stillborn child. Prose that lives and breathes off the page and a compelling narrative combine to make this one of the very best I've read.

A truly gripping read: I must say I was rather surprised when I read it. It most certainly offered up more than you would expect — something that every review prior to mine has managed to explain perfectly. Written in a beautiful way, the book itself is a real eye-opener filled with the emotions needed to keep you gripped from the start until the end.

It really has you thinking as you work your way through the book, thoughts of what life must have been like back then. Dealing with a difficult top A truly gripping read: Jul 29, Anne Osterlund rated it really liked it. Convicted as a murderess and hung by the neck for half an hour until pronounced dead, her body selected for medical research in the year And then she wakes up on the autopsy table. How can this not be good? Add to that one stammering medical student, an illicit affair, and the fact that the entire premise is TRUE.

Hooper, Mary Newes from the Dead, Pages: Roaring Book Press; Language: PG 13; Sexual Content: PG 13 Anne's "master" used her six different times for his own pleasure- not described just mentioned and where it happened ; Violence: PG 13; Based on the true story of Anne Green, an innocent girl hanged for a crime she did not commit in , thought dead she woke up on the dissecting table. The surgeons who were supposed to be dissecting her helped resurrect her and she soon lived an Hooper, Mary Newes from the Dead, Pages: The surgeons who were supposed to be dissecting her helped resurrect her and she soon lived and was finally able to tell her story and get justice for the man who told all the lies.

This book was amazing. One of the greatest books I have read in a long time. In the back of this book it has the actual article about Anne Green. Great book for everyone who loves old century stories. May 31, Amy Turn the Page rated it it was ok. Mary Hooper is an author I should love. Her stories always sound like the perfect combination: This one in particular caught my interest because it is about a girl who is hanged, but somehow survives and it is based on a true story!

As a fast reader, these feel more like Mary Hooper is an author I should love. The characters never feel fully fleshed out either. Most historical YA seem to focus on a purely romantic plot line - Mary Hooper really strives to explore the time period and coinciding historical events, something I'd personally love to see a lot more of.

A lot of the time I felt the story dragged — it took a long time for Anne to come round after being hanged and while we gained insight into how Anne came to be convicted, I felt too much time was spent focusing on the many medical students arriving one by one and waiting for the dissection of Anne's not so dead corpse.

Much more time was also spent waiting for them to decide whether the poor girl was dead or not. We also focused in on one medical student in particular - Robert, switching between his story and Anne's, so much so I was surprised when he all but faded from the book and I had to wonder why so much time had been spent on his character. By the time Anne has come fully back from the dead, there are only a few chapters left, and I cannot help but feel like all I've read so far is a more detailed version of the blurb.

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How Anne came to be standing on the gallows is an interesting tale, but I wanted more than just brief flashes. I wanted to know how Anne felt after her horrific experiences. Would she be dragged back to the gallows? What about her enemy in Sir Thomas Reade? There was no tension and it all fell a little flat to me. The ending was quite odd, and felt detached from the rest of the story or maybe I was just detached from the story , it sort of I just couldn't connect to Anne which ultimately made the story unsatisfying.

Despite my disappointment in this, I still feel that Mary Hooper is a talented writer and her stories are great for young readers. All of which, as an older reader I would have liked to have delved further into, but I think here provided great starting points for younger readers. It is a well-written book and one to be enjoyed but sadly not for me. I personally, just wanted more. May 31, Sweetp-1 rated it liked it Shelves: Newes from the Dead is a fictional account of a true story - Anne Green hanged for the infanticide of a stillborn baby awakens on the dissection table.

I found the concept to be quite intriguing and the author does a good job of recreating 's England - particularly with regard to the daily life for the servant class. I also appreciated some of the comments about what was happening in the wider world Cromwell etc which helped me to place the events in context. The story of Anne's 'downfall' Newes from the Dead is a fictional account of a true story - Anne Green hanged for the infanticide of a stillborn baby awakens on the dissection table.

The story of Anne's 'downfall' is an all too familiar one of misogyny, discrimination of the poor and seduction of the innocent. Poor girl - I couldn't help think of how many other girls had found themselves in a similar position. The audio version was well done with a convincing accent and nice emotional connect. The author switches between Anne's point of view retelling of the events that led to her hanging and that of a young doctor in training, Robert, who is to view her dissection.

I also thought some of the attitudes of the people attending her were a little unrealistic all very kind and caring to this young girl who had been condemned. Robert himself is quite interesting but once Anne awakens he basically disappears and is not mentioned again. THe ending happened very quickly and with two major plot points the death of her persecutor, and the return on her 'true love' tied up nicely in a all-too-convenient HEA.

It left me thinking that the author really hadn't added much to the facts at hand - that a young woman awakens after being hanged.

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What happened when she went home? Did her fame spread? Did she ever face her seducer again? Did she go on to have other children? I know these facts will be missing from the historical record but these are the sorts of 'filling in' I would expect from a work of fiction. All in all it was an OK story but could have been a more wellrounded work of fiction, rather than merely a retelling of a historical fact with a little bit of embellishment.

Aug 24, Rachael rated it liked it. Anne Green, a maidservant in England, was wrongly accused of infanticide. The punishment for her crime was death by hanging. Nobody could ever think that a woman, already hanged, could still be alive, but one shy medical student notices the impossible—that the corpse just fluttered her eyelids.

Could it be true? Could Anne Green really be alive? Newes from the Dead is a really fascinating novel based on the true story of Anne Green. Hooper does a fantastic job of researching and embellishing a unique historical event. Where this book does fall a little short is in writing style. Newes from the Dead appeals to all fans of historical fiction, especially those who enjoyed Ivy by Julie Hearn and Folly by Marthe Jocelyn. Nov 13, Tami Traylor rated it really liked it.

A riveting retelling of the true tale of Anne Green, who, in is hanged as a murderess for the death of her infant, who was really stillborn. Freshly plucked from the gallows and prepped for dissection, Anne is trapped in her own body, paralyzed, unable to speak, move or see.

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Unsure whether she is dead or still alive, she slowly retraces the events in her life that led up to her hanging, the manor where she was a servant since childhood, the spoiled grandson and heir of the master who cajole A riveting retelling of the true tale of Anne Green, who, in is hanged as a murderess for the death of her infant, who was really stillborn.

The scene set against the backdrop of Cromwell's England, with it's religious fervor and the fear and superstition of that era, especially concerning that mysterious middle place between life and death that Anne is unwittingly caught. The conflicting beliefs of even the academics and medical doctors that wish to study her come into play when one of their number spots the slightest movement under her eyelid, right before the initial cut is to take place.

Should they mercifully help to dispatch her off to her maker or should they endeavor to save this innocent girl who was hanged for a murder she didn't commit? Mary Hooper has obviously done her research well, the story grabs you from the first sentence and doesn't let you go. Every paragraph, with alternate voices of Anne and the young Doctor who witness both her hanging and the signs of life at her dissection cleverly typeset in different fonts for the unique voices, too!

Nov 24, Sarai rated it really liked it. I liked this book. The author did a good job of recreating what might have happened to Anne, what her thought process may have been. The original document at the end of the book is an interesting read, both because of the language differences from then to now and because of the way a news article from then differs from now. It would have been even better to be able to see the trial transcripts! Product Description Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in th I liked this book. May 07, Adrienne Reese added it.

I think that Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper is a very interesting book because its filled with mystery, suspense, and drama. It begins with a girl,Anne Green, who cant move a single muscle in her body, also she thinks she is in purgatory, or hell, or buried alive she thought she was dead because she opened her eyes and all she can see is pitch black.

She doesn't know where she is at so she starts thinking about her life. Like how she worked as a maid in Sir Thomas's house and how she cleane I think that Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper is a very interesting book because its filled with mystery, suspense, and drama. Like how she worked as a maid in Sir Thomas's house and how she cleaned everything and had to be on her best behavior for these Kings and Queens that visited all the time. Then she starts seeing stuff and realizes that she sees doctors and there is something very wrong with their tools.

The author states in the cover page that the book is based on a true story. Anne Green was hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in After her death they claim that she came back to life and then died again in This story that Mary Hooper was what she thought that Anne Green went through when she died and came back to life. I saw this book once in the library at school and read a little at the beginning, but didn't really get into it. In year 10 and a few months later, I saw it again and was so glad I chose to try once more!

A young servant girl, in a past histrorical setting, perhaps a few centuries after the Tudor reign , is sentenced to death by hanging for infanicide. You are able to witness what happened how she eas accused for the murder though her baby was really a stillborn , awaiting trial and the actu I saw this book once in the library at school and read a little at the beginning, but didn't really get into it. You are able to witness what happened how she eas accused for the murder though her baby was really a stillborn , awaiting trial and the actual exucution, though the story actually revolves around a shocking realisation that she might not be dead.

The novel also features view points from medical strudents who are to use the body. I like how she is thinking the story in her head, and you can clearly see how the whole situation happened and why she didn't desrve to be sentenced in the first place. Its a very sad but involving story so I really enjoyed reading it. Jan 06, Lindsay rated it it was ok Shelves: Her eyelid flickers and there is a noise from her throat. Could it be that she is not dead? And yet she does not move.

The gentlemen face a great puzzle. Is Anne alive, or was it simply muscle spasms? And if she yet lives, is her soul still within her body, or is it an empty shell? As we learn more about Anne and the events resulting in her lying on that cold dissection slab, sympathy for her grows. Anne is trapped in a dark place, she cannot move, she cannot speak, and she does not know where she is. All she can do is go through the events in her head, trying to work out what's happened. This was a gripping story made all the more interesting by the fact that it is based on the truth.

In , a woman called Anne Green was hung for infanticide and was revived. Mary Hooper has clearly done meticulous research on this event. The story feels authentic and believable, yet also personal. The writing is clever, weaving between Anne's recount of the past and a scholar's involvement in her revival.

This adds pace to the book although there is limited action, much of the story taking place in a single room. Anne is believably naive and ignorant, definitely a victim of her time and circumstances. As the reader already knows that her story leads to the dissection table, she seems doomed from the beginning, evoking sympathy. At times however, I found her to be too immature and trusting, which made her character a little flat.

On the other hand, the other main character Robert was nicely characterised.

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