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Copyright © Ruthy Mason, 2026 The moral right of the author has been asserted.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.  \nThe publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not  \nowned by the publisher.  \nCorsair An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Carmelite House  \n50 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DZ  \nThe authorised representative in the EEA is Hachette Ireland  \n8 Castlecourt Centre Dublin 15, D15 XTP3, Ireland (email: [info@hbgi.ie](info@hbgi.ie))  \n[www.littlebrown.co.uk](www.littlebrown.co.uk)[ ](www.littlebrown.co.uk)[www.hachette.co.uk](www.hachette.co.uk)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nPart One  \n2022  \nBea’s search history 2011  \n2022  \nBea’s messages 2011  \nBea’s lecture notes 2022  \nFennick-Watts family messages  \n2011  \nBea’s search history 2022  \n2011  \n2022  \nBea’s lists 2011  \n2022  \nBea’s lecture notes 2011  \nBea’s emails 2022  \nBea’s messages 2011  \n2022  \nBea’s search history  \n2011  \nBea’s emails  \n2022  \nBea’s messages  \nPart Two  \n2023  \nBea’s search  \n2012  \n2023  \nBea’s emails  \n2012  \n2023  \nBea’s shopping cart  \n2012  \nDaginham Park Hotel brochure  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \n2023  \n2012  \nBea’s search history  \n2023  \nExcerpt from Bridalplastic (2011): Season 2, Episode 13 2023  \nPart Three  \n2012  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \nPrivate event  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \nBea’s search  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \nBea’s messages  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \nBea’s search  \n2023  \nBea’s search  \nBea’s messages  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2012  \nBea’s messages  \n2023  \n2012  \n2023  \nBea’s messages  \n2023  \n2012  \n2023  \nPart Four  \n2012  \nBea’s search  \n2025  \nAcknowledgements  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Craig, my wonderful husband, who this book is not about.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPart One  \nFLESH  \nIn the earliest stages of decomposition, the body will undergo a process called algor mortis, where its temperature will drop until it reaches that of its surroundings. Next, rigor mortis develops: a stiffening of the muscles and limbs. Livor mortis will also occur, with blood collecting in the side of the body that is closest to the ground.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n2022  \nEveryone says how lucky she is. And for a while, she believes it.  \nRight after he asks, when he’s gone to clean the tiramisu off his shirt, two old women shuffle over to Bea’s table. False teeth click on each syllable. Chains of pearls hang from their necks. They’re the first of the wellwishers. The first to congratulate her on her transformation.  \n‘Lucky girl, lucky girl,’ they say.  \nThey’re a kind of old that’s difficult for her to comprehend. They’re a riddle she can’t crack, a piece of indecipherable code, a cryptic with no clue. She struggles to contextualise them – to give them depth and richness of experience, or even to put them into the same trajectory of life that she’son. There’s so much time between them and her, and she can’t bridge the gap. Sometimes Bea tries to imagine herself as an elderly woman, but her brain never lets her see herself clearly. The woman she pictures is normal from a distance, though as she tries to focus on the features, the details, the face distorts into incomprehensible soup. It becomes like a picture created by AI, if you fed it the term ‘old lady’ and asked it to draw. 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