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Mrs Robinson's disgrace
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- Book Synopsis
- FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER 'Extraordinary' PHILIPPA GREGORY, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Grippingly suspenseful' SUNDAY TIMES 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 nineteenth 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. 'I'm all admiration: she has turned a sepia photograph, curling and tattered, into a film that runs through the mind in glorious and unimpeachable Technicolor' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER 'Summerscale strikes non-fiction gold for the third time' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Moving, compelling and brilliantly executed' DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Summerscale's brilliance lies not only in recognising the power of a particular story, but in charting, with beautiful precision, its strange echoes and reverberations' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAY Note: There is a chance the book cover you receive may differ from the cover displayed here
- About The Author
- Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of 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. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.
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- ISBN
- 9781408831243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, (14 March 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 240 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 128 x 20 mm
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