Mrs Robinson'S Disgrace Av Kate Summerscale

<p><b>FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER</b><br><b><br>''Extraordinary'' PHILIPPA GREGORY, <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br><b><br>''Grippingly suspenseful'' <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br><br>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. . .<br><br>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.<br><br><b>‘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, <i>OBSERVER</i></b><br><br><b>''Summerscale strikes non-fiction gold for the third time'' <i>INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY</i></b><br><br><b>''Moving, compelling and brilliantly executed'' <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH </i>BOOKS OF THE YEAR</b><br><br><b>‘Summerscale’s brilliance lies not only in recognising </b><b>the power of a particular story, but in charting,</b><br><b>with beautiful precision, its strange echoes </b><b>and reverberations’ CRAIG BROWN, <i>MAIL ON SUNDAY</i></b><br><br>Note: There is a chance the book cover you receive may differ from the cover displayed here</p>