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Emma Donoghue vividly brings to life stories encouraged by her discoveries of amazing, concealed scraps of the past. Here, an engraving of a female having a baby to rabbits, a plague ballad, surgical case records, theological pamphlets, and an articulated skeleton are ingeniously fleshed out into rollicking, full-bodied fictions. Whether she's rotating the tale of English soldier tricked into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's endeavors to "improve" women, a 17th-century Irish countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a guy, or an "undead" murderess returning for the maid she left out to be carried out in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her tales a colorful, beautiful prose filled up with the sights and smells and looks of the time. She summons the ghosts of those women and men who counted for nothing in their own day and brings them to remarkable life in fiction.
