LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'I'm
obsessed!' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Exhilarating ... Becky Cooper masterfully uncovers the story of
Harvard undergrad Jane Britton.' VOGUE ________________________ You have to remember he
reminded me that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because
Harvard doesn't let you forget. 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities
would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University
would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe its all-female sister school and
the year that Jane Britton an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology
Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton would be found bludgeoned
to death in her Cambridge Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later Becky Cooper a curious
undergrad will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was
nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor and the
professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd
threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumour proves false the story that unfolds
one that Cooper will follow for ten years is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in
academia a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites the silencing effect of institutions
and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir
of mirrors misogyny and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that
rules our revered institutions a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's
present and a love story for a girl who was lost to history. ________________________ 'A
brilliant and extraordinary book.' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Top drawer investigative reporting.
Riveting. A refreshing reason to sacrifice sleep' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'You have to remember
he reminded me that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because
Harvard doesn't let you forget. If that sentence paired with the title doesn't get your
spidey senses tingling I don't know what will' REFINERY29
