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'Simply superb... an engrossing read' Guardian
'Grippingly suspenseful' Sunday Times
'Like her previous book, I was hooked after the first few pages. It's as good as non-fiction could possibly get' Victoria Hislop, Daily Mail
'Told with dazzling detail and exquisite tenderness, this non-fiction tale reads like a perfect novel' Elle Magazine
'Utterly engrossing' Woman & Home
'Riveting' Metro
'Absorbing ... a rich and puzzled book' Spectator
'Summerscale puts this peculiar case in a wonderfully rich context of fads of the day ... Her courtroom reconstructions are vivid and enthralling, her research is impeccable and her narration coolly authoritative as she draws together what was happening around her subject and makes Mrs Robinson's volatile state of mind much more explicable' Evening Standard
'Fascinating' New York Times Book Review
'A gripping account of Victorian wife Isabella Robinson and her cause célèbre divorce trial' Harper’s Bazaar
'Meticulously researched' New York Times
'Sensational' Glasgow Herald
'Kate Summerscale has a knack for rescuing Victorian histories from obscurity and turning them into the most comprehensive books you're likely to find in any non-fiction section ... Thought-provoking stuff from a writer who, in putting the past in the dock, teaches us about who we are now' Scotsman
'Moving, compelling and brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
Read the Guardian Interview with Kate Summerscale
Read the Guardian review of Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
Read The Times review of Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
'Summerscale strikes nonfiction gold for the third time' Independent on Sunday
'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' Mail on Sunday
'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' Observer
'Mesmerising' Independent
