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ANATOMY · BOOK ONE

The Seventh Measure

Britain, beneath the skin: desire, history and an extraordinary landscape of secrets.

Conservation surveyor Elliot Marr enters a world of ancient stone, complicated intimacy and troubling evidence. With Mara and Gabriel, he encounters mysteries that move between Winchester, the Isle of Wight and the Solent fortifications. The first ANATOMY novel explores British heritage, secrecy, sexuality and what it means to live inside another person’s story.

Author · Matt O’Crowley
Fiction · ATLAS Books
Look inside · Chapter One — A Genuine Fake

Elliot Marr was halfway through a smoked-salmon canapé when a woman asked whether King Arthur had really eaten his dinner off the enormous table hanging on the wall.

He had heard the question before. Rather a lot, actually. But there was something about asking it in Winchester’s Great Hall while pointing at a thirteenth-century piece of furniture displayed vertically that suggested a certain determination not to be inconvenienced by common sense.

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