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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestseller The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her fourth, The Wicked Boy, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.
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The Wicked Boy
An Infamous Murder in Victorian London
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017
‘A stunning post-mortem of “the horror” at number 35 … Talk about bringing history alive’ Sunday Express
July, 1895. Thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow brick terraced house in east London to watch a cricket match at Lord’s. For the next ten days, they spent extravagantly, pawning family valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. During this time nobody saw or heard from their mother, though the boys told neighbours she was visiting relatives – but as the sun beat down on the Coombes’ house, an awful smell began to emanate from the building.
When the police were finally called to investigate, what they found in one of the bedrooms sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the ‘penny dreadful’ novels that Robert loved to read.
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality – it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man’s capacity to overcome the past.
‘Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light’ John Carey, Sunday Times
Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace
The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
‘Like her previous book, I was hooked after the first few pages. It's as good as non-fiction could possibly get’ Victoria Hislop, Daily Mail
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake...
In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the century, Isabella Robinson’s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.
‘Extraordinary’ Philippa Gregory, Daily Telegraph
‘Simply superb’ Guardian
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Or The Murder at Road Hill House
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008
‘A beautiful piece, written with great lucidity and respect for the reader, and with immaculate restraint. A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing’ John le Carré
Summer, 1860. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, travels to Road Hill House in Wiltshire with the task of solving a gruesome murder case in which members of the grieving family are the suspects.
The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes provokes national hysteria throughout Victorian England, but when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.
A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery.
‘Nothing less than a masterpiece’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
‘Terrific’ Ian Rankin
‘A page-turning merging of scrupulous research with vivid storytelling’ Observer