The Bone Hunters - The spellbinding novel for fans of THE ESSEX SERPENT and AMMONITE

In 1824, Lyme Regis is as tumultuous as the sea that surrounds it. Wealthy holidaymakers dance in the Assembly Rooms whilst the poor riot over the price of bread, scientists do battle with theologists, and amidst it all, one woman is about to make an extraordinary discovery. When twenty-four-year-old Ada Winters - poor, peculiar and brilliant - uncovers a set of unusual fossils on the cliffs, she believes she has found the answer to her scientific frustrations and her family''s financial struggles. Meanwhile, Doctor Edwin Moyle has come to Dorset in search of the discovery that will place him amongst the greatest geologists of the age. What he finds instead is a strange young woman who seems to hold the key to everything he seeks. But what is the creature that Ada and Edwin seek to unearth? And will it be their means to greatness, or destruction?

About the author

Joanne Burn was born in Northampton in 1973, and now lives in the Peak District where she works as a writing coach. She is the author of two previous novels, Petals and Stones and The Hemlock Cure.

She can found on Instagram at @joanne.burn and at www.joanneburn.com

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Burn, JOANNE BURN
• Publisher: Sphere
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781408726501
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-2650-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Dorset, Gothic, FICTION / Gothic, Rocks, minerals & fossils, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest