The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780747599227 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780747599227 Global Overview for this book
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My boyfriend got me this for Christmas. I'd not heard of it before but it's exactly my kind of book plus it fits in with where my interest really lies - female hysteria.
Synopsis
'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale has already attracted a lot of attention. The crime - a small child killed - excited Dickens and Wilkie Collins and other novelists of the time. I can't think of another book which takes you so fast into the smells, tastes and atmosphere of that time' Doris Lessing 'A pacy analysis of a true British murder case from 1860, the unravelling of which involved one of the earliest Scotland Yard detectives and inspired sensation novelists such as Dickens and Wilkie Collins by exposing the dark secrets of the Victorian middle-class home. Absolutely riveting' Sarah Waters, Guardian 'Vastly entertaining sly, delicate and probing' London Review of Books 'Sparse, melancholy, beautifully written the year's most beguiling biography' Independent
Synopsis
'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale has already attracted a lot of attention. The crime - a small child killed - excited Dickens and Wilkie Collins and other novelists of the time. I can't think of another book which takes you so fast into the smells, tastes and atmosphere of that time' Doris Lessing 'A pacy analysis of a true British murder case from 1860, the unravelling of which involved one of the earliest Scotland Yard detectives and inspired sensation novelists such as Dickens and Wilkie Collins by exposing the dark secrets of the Victorian middle-class home. Absolutely riveting' Sarah Waters, Guardian 'Vastly entertaining sly, delicate and probing' London Review of Books 'Sparse, melancholy, beautifully written the year's most beguiling biography' Independent
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