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Mairi Kidd: The Specimens

Name: Mairi Kidd: The Specimens
Start: 2025-06-12T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Buccleuch Marquee

Saturday, 14 June 2025

9:00pm ‐ 10:00pm

Buccleuch Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/mairikiddspecimen

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Mairi’s new novel is a bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the point of view of the women closest to the gruesome truth. Set in Edinburgh in 1828 two women, one rich, one poor, must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical discovery, mob mayhem and murder. This is a very different account of the notorious serial killings of Burke and Hare, told for the first time through the eyes of two women from different backgrounds whose stories explore the depths of the human heart in a perilous, vulnerable world.

Supported by the Dr David Summers Charitable Trust