'Heart-wrenching . . . A book to read in a sitting' LUCY CALDWELL 'A gut-punch of a novel'
EMMA DONOGHUE 'Cathartic bold and ultimately hopeful' JESSIE BURTON 'Masterfully written .
. . Envelopes you' JODIE MATTHEWS 'Powerful' CATHY RENTZENBRINK When her life is
unexpectedly upended Anna escapes London - and her husband - for a remote cottage in the
wetlands of rural England. She hopes the solitude might unblock the novel she can't bring
herself to write. Out in the marshes the locals discover something shocking risen to the
surface after many years buried in the silty earth. Anna is drawn to the site fascinated and
shaken by what she finds there. And as researchers descend her curiosity gives way to
obsession . . . An unsettling propulsive and fiercely tender novel about buried loss and
renewal Our Numbered Bones explores how we must unearth the past in order to make peace with
what we've lost.
