Caroline

I love wandering around old cemeteries and churchyards, looking at the weather worn headstones, the tombs and vaults, and wondering about the souls who occupy them, the lives they led, and what brought about their demise. 🪦

That's morbid, I hear you cry. Perhaps, but we all have our foibles. 🪦

As soon as I saw the premise for this book I knew I had to read it, and I was not disappointed. Someone is Walking on Your Grave is basically a tour guide of cemeteries that Mariana Enriquez has visited over the years, from Europe to Australia to South America and North America. She's been to Greyfriars in Edinburgh, and Highgate in London. She's been in the catacombs in Paris. She's been in cemeteries in New Orleans and Savannah. 🪦

This isn't just a list of cemeteries and their famous occupants, though. Mariana shares lots of interesting historical background. Stories of love, of war, of body snatching, of repatriation. 🪦

I loved this book. I love that Greyfriars Bobby, the Highgate vampire, the vampire Léstat, and the Sedlec Ossuary were mentioned. And I loved learning that a small area of Patagonia was colonised by..... the Welsh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🖤🪦

Thanks to Granta Publications and Netgalley for the digital ARC.