The Five - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<BR>A TIMES Top Ten Best True Crime book: 'Groundbreaking. Extraordinary'<BR><BR>'Terrific' Ian Rankin<BR>'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES<BR>'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth' MAIL ON SUNDAY<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION<BR>____________<BR>Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.<BR>____________<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR THE FIVE<BR><BR>'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY<BR>'Fascinating, compelling, moving.' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding<BR>'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.' GUARDIAN<BR>'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'What a brilliant and necessary book' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn<BR>'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' ERIN KELLY<BR>'An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificent' SPECTATOR<BR>'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKER<BR><BR>**NOW BUY THE BRAND NEW WORK BY HALLIE RUBENHOLD: STORY OF A MURDER