Product Description
The Five
Author: Hallie Rubenhold
Format: Paperback
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Multi Award-Winning Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
A TIMES Top Ten Best True Crime book: 'Groundbreaking. Extraordinary'
'Terrific' — Ian Rankin
'Gripping' — New York Times
'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth' — Mail on Sunday
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.
They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.
Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.
Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
Praise for the Five
'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' — Lucy Worsley
'Fascinating, compelling, moving.' — BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding
'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.' — Guardian
'Haunting' — Sunday Times
'What a brilliant and necessary book' — JO BAKER, author of Longbourn
'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' — Erin Kelly
'An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificent' — Spectator
'Deeply researched' — The New Yorker
**Now Buy the Brand New Work by Hallie Rubenhold: Story of a Murder
About the Author
Hallie Rubenhold is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder, the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen, has been optioned for TV. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold
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