How did the story develop and what was the initial inspiration for the story?
Hannah: It all started when I came across this word “resurrection men”. I was studying words that have fallen out of use in the English language and I thought it was a beautiful word “resurrection men”. And then I read the definition which is thieves who would dig up bodies and sell them to medical schools, and this became extremely prevalent in Europe and the United States when medical schools were really proliferating and doctoring was becoming more of a science. I was really drawn to it as a subject matter because what they were doing was the worst possible thing you could ever do, desecrating a grave. But ultimately it did lead to a greater good because these doctors were able to practice and potentially save lives in the future. So any sort of grey area like that is a wonderful thing for a writer to explore. What started it was I had this image in my head of this scene and in the scene, it was at a graveyard and the men were behind the gates digging up the bodies and then on the o
