![]() It always made me laugh in dystopian books when people are literally dying and the protagonist is like, “Oh, but who will I love?” But on the other hand, I didn’t want to say that smart, ambitious women can’t also find love and have crushes. I didn’t want the book to say the most important thing is finding a boyfriend. Hazel is someone who’s incredibly ambitious, smart and focused. The book is called a “love story,” but it doesn’t follow the typical arc of a romance novel, and Hazel’s romantic life takes a backseat to her love affair with surgery. And when that became a threat in our real pandemic, I pulled it because I didn’t want people to get the wrong message. In my original version, I had a character selling a cure for the fictional plague that turned out to be a sham. Because plagues were a thing in history and I was writing a book that involves a lot of dead bodies, it only made sense that there would be this big atmospheric threat. I began writing this book a year before we had even heard of COVID. Did the pandemic influence your writing at all? There’s a plague making its way through Edinburgh in the book. This book feels like all of my passions coming together at once. Since that trip, I’ve been fascinated by the city. The Old City Centre is on this beautiful green grassy hill. The place that I distinctly remember arriving to, like out of a dream, was Edinburgh. The summer after I graduated college, a friend and I decided that we would try to see as much of Europe for as cheap as possible. Story continues Anatomy has a very dark setting and tone. ![]() TIME spoke to Schwartz about bucking the conventions of a romance novel, channeling her inner teen and why she retired her ultra-popular Twitter accounts. ![]() Read More: The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2022 But as live patients begin coming to them with missing limbs and no memories of how they lost them, Hazel and Jack begin to realize there is a force more sinister than the plague at work in the city. In need of cadavers to study, she teams up with resurrection man Jack Currer to practice on the dead and living alike-and the ongoing Roman plague means there is no shortage of bodies to examine. Beecham, Hazel is kicked out of the class, but strikes a deal with the doctor: if she passes the physician’s exam on her own, she can continue her medical career. After she is discovered dressing as a man to attend the lectures of the famed Dr. 18, follows Hazel Sinnett, a noblewoman in 1817 Edinburgh who dreams of becoming a surgeon-a profession that women were for the most part barred from pursuing.
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