Newes from the Dead
By Mary Hooper
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"Intriguing and captivating."—Celia Rees, author of Witch Child
WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)
Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory—of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the man—that led her to the gallows.
Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive?
Beautifully written, impossible to put down, and meticulously researched, Newes from the Dead is based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table. Newes from the Dead concludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.
Newes from the Dead is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Mary Hooper
Mary Hooper is the author of more than 60 children’s and young adult books. She has two grown children and lives with her husband Richard in Oxfordshire, England, the same area Anne Green came from.
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Reviews for Newes from the Dead
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting book about a young girl who survived the hangman's noose.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Welcome to UnMerry Ole England in 1650, where the rich are high above the poor and treat underlings as pawns to be used and abused.Based on the true story of Anne Green, a servant girl, who was wrongfully accused of infanticide and hanged, and who miraculously lived after the hanging.While her body was cold, bruised and ready to be dissected by learned scholars, one of the physicians noticed a slight movement of her eyelids. Those who wanted to proceed with the dissection, disagreed, and those who called for time to learn if Anne was alive won as she did indeed survive the brutality.More than a ghoulish tale, this is a wonderful depiction of the brutality of a system where poor don't stand a chance in a court of law, where life is beyond unfair and where innocence does not matter.Anne Green was mislead and taken advantage of by the grandson and heir of the master of the house. Rich and influential, when the master learns one of his servant girls was pregnant and miscarried a tiny nine inch being, he demands to know the father.When Anne is honest, she is slapped and taken to jail. Found guilty of murder, she is condemned to die on the gallows.Highly recommended!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Newes from the Dead is a book that I’ve wanted to read for a very long time. It was on my wish list for so long that I actually forgot it was based on the true story of Anne Green.So of course I had to pick it up when I finally came across it at the store. I’m so glad that I finally read it because it’s just an amazing story. It’s not a long book and it’s so interesting that it is easy to read in one sitting.I love everything about this book. I will be reading this one again someday. Please pick it up and read it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A historical tale that is based on a true story, Newes from the Dead tells of a woman named Anne Green who was wrongfully accused of killing her baby. Due to this, she was sentenced to death. Luckily, Anne lives through the hanging and is found to be barely alive during her dissection. Therefore, the doctors revive her. This story is told from Anne's point of view with all the events leading to her near-death. It is also told from a shy, stuttering medical student's point of view as well, with interesting pieces of his life and story. It is an interesting read filled with history, hope, and more.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was okay. It was very interesting in the sense that it was based on a true story. Anne Green was charged with infanticide (even though her baby was stillborn) and sentenced to death by hanging. Anne, however, survived the hanging and was spared dissection. I didn't find the book all that compelling, since we already know what's happened and the story was merely filling in the finer details. Overall, it was an okay book but nothing spectatular.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In 1650, while Robert, a young medical assistant , steels himself to assist with her dissection, 22 year old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact stillborn.A very unusual look at British history during the time of Cromwell. Based on a true story and with evidence of original documents, this story of a young woman who is hanged, but doesn't die, is spell-binding.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne Green, hung for infanticide in 1650, slowly wakes as she is prepared for dissection.Based on a true event, Mary Hooper spins a compelling story, reveling, from Anne's point of view, how she came to be in her terrible situation. Alternative chapters relate the arrival of surgeons and scholars who have come to witness the dissection and gradually realist that she may not be dead.Apart from an extraordinary story line, the history is interesting and well researched and the characters human. Even if you have to suspend disbelief a little (Anne is very lucid for one just recovering consicousness after being hung) this story is well worth reading.Recommended for upper secondary/ high school students
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Historically interesting YA novel. I actually thought it ended too soon - I wanted to know more about the characters.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In 1650 England, Anne Green is accused of murdering her newborn baby. She is sentenced to death but wakes up during her subsequent autopsy. It's hard to miss with a hook like this, but it gets better: this book is well-researched and based on actual historical events.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was fascinated by this book, based on the true story of a young woman, unjustly accused of infanticide, who was hung and then when her body was about to be dissected for medical science, woke up, having not been killed. The book is extremely well written and researched and does a fantastic job of conveying the social, political, ethical and medical climate of the era. This is a page turner with lots of important information. The girl was pretty much raped and the entire story is laced with the harsh realities of the era. I would therefore only recommend this book to mature teens.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In seventeenth century England, Anne Green, a servant in the house hold of Sir Thomas Read, gave birth to a premature and stillborn baby. That his grandson was the father of this child was likely what prompted Sir Read to have Anne Green prosecuted for the murder of an infant. This story would have ended with her hanging, had the execution been successful. But hours after this event (during which her father and brother hung on her legs to quicken her death), when laid out for dissection to train medical students, Anne Green fluttered her eyelids. That she survived her death is viewed as the divine providence of God in sparing the life of an innocent woman. Based on this true tale and told from both the point of view of a young medical student and Anne Green herself, this work of historical fiction is engaging and provides a window onto the disparity among social classes during the 1600s.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The whole idea is creepy. I was wondering if she was going to be cut open while alive!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Haunting, thrilling, totally engrossing historical fiction!!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A retelling of the true story of Anne Greene, a young serving girl who was hanged in 1650 after being wrongly accused and convicted of murdering her own child. Her body was sent to be dissected, and she was found to be still alive.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I don't remember where I read about this book but the premise, a young girl in the 1600s is accused of murder and hanged, only to come back to life, was fascinating. Hooper's book details the story of Anne Green and her miraculous return to life. Based on a true story, Newes from the Dead mixes truth with fiction very smartly. The novel is told from two points of view, that of Anne herself and the other Robert, a medical student president at her autopsy. The points of view are different and balance each other very well in this enthralling novel. The book also includes a copy of the original manuscript where the title came from as well as a bibliography.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fictionalized account of true story about young woman, Anne Green, who was hanged for infanticide in 1650, and survived!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was based on true events that happened in the 1600s - a girl is hanged for supposedly killing her child upon birth, but does not die. The story goes back and forth between the viewpoint of a young scientist who is to observe the dissection of her body - and finds her not dead - and the view of the girl and her memories leading up to the point of her death. The novel was very interesting and I loved that the author included the actual article "Newes from the Dead" printed during the 1600's at the end of the novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Hooper is easily my favourite modern young adult author – or at least, for her historical novels she is – I haven’t read any of her contemporary books. This one is based on a true story - Anne Greene really did ‘survive’ hanging. Mary Hooper has taken this event and some of the people involved, but has told the tale from Anne’s point of view. Obviously some of the characters and events are invented and there is a lot of guesswork involved, but it makes for a great read, and as always, brings the period to life. This was slightly more ‘gruesome’ than the other books of hers that I’ve read and it says on the back that it’s not suitable for younger readers.
Hooper’s characterisation is, as ever, spot on, and one instantly feels transported back to 17th century England with her excellent descriptions of the sights and smells of Oxford. If you don’t mind young adult novels and enjoy historical tales then I would recommend this and I very much look forward to reading more of her work. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Newes from the Dead is an eerie and overwhelmingly shocking story based on Anne Green, a maidservant, who survived her hanging in 1650 England. Author Mary Hooper, begins the story full throttle engaging the reader in the events that lead Anne to be executed for infanticide and the medical phenomenon she became after awakening on the dissection table hours later. Working for Sir Thomas Read, a wealthy friend and ally of King Charles, Anne finds herself fighting off and being persuaded by the sexual advances of Read’s grandson Master Geoffrey. Struggling with obedience to her master and yearning for a better life, Anne consents to “lay with” Master Geoffrey after he convinces Anne that he will make her his wife once his grandfather dies. When Master Geoffrey leaves for school, Anne finds herself pregnant. Fearful, she hides the pregnancy and attempts to “rid herself of the burden of it” after realizing that Master Geoffrey will have nothing to do with her. With no success of terminating, the story thickens after Anne has a stillbirth at the manor. As a result, Read furiously demands and rigs the court for Anne to be sentenced to death- all with the intention of covering up his grandson’s part in the ordeal. To make this story even more intriguing and captivating, Hooper simultaneously tells of what happens to Anne post execution through the perspective of a medical student. Not only does Newes of the Dead accurately portray life during the mid 1600’s England, readers will gain an understanding of the social norms and scientific/medical knowledge during that time. Moreover, the novel concludes with a primary resource- an excerpt from an original 1651 pamphlet about the incident. This adds to the authenticity of the story. A bibliography and author’s note also provide readers to further research on Anne Green. Newes from the Dead is a masterful piece of historical fiction that will have readers questioning morality and karma. Age Appropriate: 16 years-old and upTopics alluded to in this book are mature (sex, rape, abortion, prostitution, stillbirths, capital punishment) but are presented tastefully and appropriately for the time period referenced.