About the Book: Language of Bones
Every skeleton has a story to tell. Mortician and pathology curator Carla
Valentine knows this better than anyone.
As the curator of a pathology museum housing more than 5, 000 human specimens,
many of them bones and skeletons, she spends her days uncovering the secrets
they hold.
In this gripping and accessible exploration, Valentine reveals what our bones
can tell us about who we were and how we lived. Each chapter takes her to a
different ossuary, from the UK to the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria and France,
where she uncovers hidden stories of the dead,