The Wicked Boy: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017
Autor Kate Summerscaleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2017
'The queen of Victorian true crime is back' MAIL ON SUNDAY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
On 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nattie set out from their East London home to watch a cricket match. Over the next ten days they spend extravagantly, visiting the theatre and eating out. The boys tell neighbours their father has gone to sea, and their mother to visit family in Liverpool. But when a strange smell begins to emanate from the house, the police are called. What they find throws the press into a frenzy - and the boys into a highly publicised trial.
'An accomplished feat of research and storytelling . . . Wrapping controversial issues into a tense, fluent narrative' HILARY MANTEL
'Riveting . . . Once again the author proves a subtle pathologist, her scalpel slicing away the skin of late-Victorian Britain' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'A remarkably heartening story' JOHN PRESTON, DAILY MAIL
'An extraordinary book which will stay with you' DAILY EXPRESS
'It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed' SPECTATOR
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408851166
ISBN-10: 1408851164
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp B&W plates
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408851164
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp B&W plates
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
No other writer could have made the Coombes case so fascinating and so vivid ... It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed
An extraordinary book which will stay with you
Gripping... Summerscale is an exquisite storyteller. She is judicious in her use of detail, subtle in her unspoken connections between the past and the present.... This is the story of one wicked boy, but it is also a plea for compassion and empathy
For her latest forensic investigation into the throttled passions of Victorian family life, Summerscale has moved forward 35 years to 1895 and turned away from the provincial bourgeois home to the working-class terraces of London's East End ... [a] fine account ... subtle and confident
Unexpectedly touching... a fascinating account of a murder and its endless reverberations
As Kate Summerscale has proved before, she has a wonderfully sharp eye for stories which turn out not to be quite what they seem... a remarkably heartening story
Compelling... it gripped and stoked the national imagination, just as it surely will again
A work of social history that is as compassionate as it is absorbing... we almost feel we are wandering through these scenes ourselves
Ultimately, the narrative is an exploration of Victorian attitudes to juvenile crime, and this pacy slice of social history acts as both hawk-eyed prosecution and gentle defence
An absorbing account of fin-de-siecle Britain... [and] a powerful story about vulnerable and neglected children, both then and now
It's a fascinating story and Summerscale tells it beautifully... [Her] sympathetic and intelligent study is full of social interest too. I can't imagine that it could have been done better
The challenge, to which Ms Summerscale rises wonderfully well, is to sustain the reader's interest in him for the remaining 50-odd years of his life . Evocative . Through a mixture of serendipity and meticulous research, Ms Summerscale is able to add one final, heart-stopping twist
Redemption comes twice in this account . An extremely touching twist . Scrupulous and occasionally startling
Summerscale has performed a stunning post-mortem of "the horror" at number 35 . Talk about bringing history alive
It is above all her skill in creating a context for the crime which makes The Wicked Boy so readable . the sounds and smells of the East End docks, from which their father set sail, are evoked with particular vividness. More fascinating still are the ideas of the age ... An extraordinary tale of redemption
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
An extraordinary book which will stay with you
Gripping... Summerscale is an exquisite storyteller. She is judicious in her use of detail, subtle in her unspoken connections between the past and the present.... This is the story of one wicked boy, but it is also a plea for compassion and empathy
For her latest forensic investigation into the throttled passions of Victorian family life, Summerscale has moved forward 35 years to 1895 and turned away from the provincial bourgeois home to the working-class terraces of London's East End ... [a] fine account ... subtle and confident
Unexpectedly touching... a fascinating account of a murder and its endless reverberations
As Kate Summerscale has proved before, she has a wonderfully sharp eye for stories which turn out not to be quite what they seem... a remarkably heartening story
Compelling... it gripped and stoked the national imagination, just as it surely will again
A work of social history that is as compassionate as it is absorbing... we almost feel we are wandering through these scenes ourselves
Ultimately, the narrative is an exploration of Victorian attitudes to juvenile crime, and this pacy slice of social history acts as both hawk-eyed prosecution and gentle defence
An absorbing account of fin-de-siecle Britain... [and] a powerful story about vulnerable and neglected children, both then and now
It's a fascinating story and Summerscale tells it beautifully... [Her] sympathetic and intelligent study is full of social interest too. I can't imagine that it could have been done better
The challenge, to which Ms Summerscale rises wonderfully well, is to sustain the reader's interest in him for the remaining 50-odd years of his life . Evocative . Through a mixture of serendipity and meticulous research, Ms Summerscale is able to add one final, heart-stopping twist
Redemption comes twice in this account . An extremely touching twist . Scrupulous and occasionally startling
Summerscale has performed a stunning post-mortem of "the horror" at number 35 . Talk about bringing history alive
It is above all her skill in creating a context for the crime which makes The Wicked Boy so readable . the sounds and smells of the East End docks, from which their father set sail, are evoked with particular vividness. More fascinating still are the ideas of the age ... An extraordinary tale of redemption
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
Notă biografică
Kate Summerscale, formerly the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, is the author of The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Prize. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher was a #1 bestseller in the UK, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, was short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Summerscale lives in London.