Written in Bone - Sue Black

• Hardback
• First Edition
• Condition: Good
• 359 pages
• Non-Fiction: Science, True Crime

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 Professor 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.

Limb by limb, case by case, some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre - Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the stories hidden in what we leave behind.