diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index f760ecc..f194eeb 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "ManualMemory"
 uuid = "d125e4d3-2237-4719-b19c-fa641b8a4667"
 authors = ["chriselrod <elrodc@gmail.com> and contributors"]
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 
 [compat]
 julia = "1.5"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 860615a..878e620 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,3 +4,35 @@
 [![Dev](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-dev-blue.svg)](https://JuliaSIMD.github.io/ManualMemory.jl/dev)
 [![Build Status](https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/ManualMemory.jl/actions/workflows/CI.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/ManualMemory.jl/actions/workflows/CI.yml)
 [![Coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/JuliaSIMD/ManualMemory.jl/branch/main/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/JuliaSIMD/ManualMemory.jl)
+
+Manually managed memory buffers backed by NTuples
+
+### Examples
+
+```julia
+julia> using ManualMemory: MemoryBuffer, load, store!, LazyPreserve, preserve, PseudoPtr, Reference
+
+julia> m = MemoryBuffer{4,Float64}(undef)
+MemoryBuffer{4, Float64}((2.283825594e-314, 2.2157350003e-314, 2.216358792e-314, 2.08e-322))
+
+julia> store!(pointer(m), 1.23)
+
+julia> load(pointer(m))
+1.23
+```
+Specifying an existing `NTuple` of data:
+```julia
+julia> s = (1,2,3,4,5);
+
+julia> m = MemoryBuffer(s)
+MemoryBuffer{5, Int64}((1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
+
+julia> load(p)
+1
+
+julia> load(p+sizeof(Int64))
+2
+
+julia> load(p+sizeof(Int64)*2)
+3
+```
diff --git a/src/ManualMemory.jl b/src/ManualMemory.jl
index 9b68dd0..5ecc335 100644
--- a/src/ManualMemory.jl
+++ b/src/ManualMemory.jl
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ mutable struct MemoryBuffer{N,T}
     @assert Base.allocatedinline(T)
     new{N,T}()
   end
+  @inline function MemoryBuffer(data::NTuple{N,T}) where {N,T}
+    @assert Base.allocatedinline(T)
+    new{N,T}(data)
+  end
 end
 @inline Base.unsafe_convert(::Type{Ptr{T}}, m::MemoryBuffer) where {T} = Ptr{T}(pointer_from_objref(m))
 @inline Base.pointer(m::MemoryBuffer{N,T}) where {N,T} = Ptr{T}(pointer_from_objref(m))
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 7fc1516..6854a6c 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ using Test
     store!(pointer(x), 1)
     @test load(pointer(x)) === 1 === load(pointer(y))
   end
+
+  # Test construction with existing data
+  s = (1,2,3,4,5)
+  @test MemoryBuffer(s).data === s
 end
 
 using ThreadingUtilities
 include(joinpath(pkgdir(ThreadingUtilities), "test", "runtests.jl"))
-