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About the Book

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his
twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in
East London to watch a cricket match at Lord’s. Their father had gone to sea the
previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family
in Liverpool. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their
parents’ valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down
on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate from the building.
When the police were finally called to investigate, the discovery they made sent the
press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a
criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the ‘penny dreadful’ novels that Robert
loved to read.
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder
and morality – it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but
also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man’s capacity to overcome the past.

About the Author

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London. katesummerscale.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408851159
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury India
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Depth: 32
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1408851156
  • Publisher Date: May,2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Weight: 525 gr

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