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Written In Bone

bySue Black, Sue Black (Read by)

hidden stories in what we leave behind

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Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.

Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.

Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt. Limb by limb, case by case – some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre – Dame Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.

© Sue Black 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The corpse whisperer ... could Black's life be any more ready for a series producer to pitch to Netflix? ... and is it OK for her, or us, to enjoy this quite so much?

Helen Rumbelow, The Times

About Sue Black

Professor Dame Sue Black is one of the world’s leading anatomists and forensic anthropologists. She is also the President of John’s College, Oxford and previously Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee.
She was the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic Team's work in the war crimes investigations in Kosovo, and she was one of the first forensic scientists to travel to Thailand following the Indian Ocean tsunami to provide assistance in identifying the dead. Sue was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to forensic anthropology. She was inducted to the Order of the Thistle in Edinburgh on 3 July 2024.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-wining Sunday Times bestsellers All That Remains and Written in Bone.
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  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473582439
  • Length: 702 minutes
  • Price: £13.00
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