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Kate Summerscale's
new book exposes the scandalous case of a Victorian woman taken to court over
her diaries about an affair with a married man
It was while she was
researching The Suspicions of Mr Whicher that Summerscale came across
an intriguing reference to a celebrated Victorian divorce case. “Although I
couldn’t do anything with it at the time, it stayed with me. It was a sort of
puzzle. Once I had embarked on it, however, the book became not merely the
solving of that puzzle but an attempt to reconstruct a life.”
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Picturebook legend
Shirley Hughes explains the background to her first novel, Hero on a
Bicycle
I was 19 when I
first saw Florence. It was my first visit to Italy. I had my sketchbook with
me, and I thought it was the most beautiful city I had ever seen. It was not
long after the end of the Second World War. Tourists were beginning to
trickle back, but the bridges over the Arno had been blown up, and there was
a lot of poverty. Food was scarce for those who could not afford to buy on
the black market.
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