A Tour Of Bones: Facing Fear And Looking For Life

"When Denise Inge’s husband, John, was appointed the bishop of Worcester Cathedral in 2008, she discovered their new house was built over an ossuary, or “charnel house.” The bones of Benedictine monks were collected there in medieval times. It took Inge a while to work up the courage to descend into that cellar. Gazing on all those skulls and femurs brought Inge face to face with the brevity of life and propelled her on a journey, both literal and spiritual, in which she visited bone houses throughout Europe. As a book — part travelogue, part memoir, part memento mori — A Tour of Bones is as strange and inspiring as are any of the bone houses that Inge visited."