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Julia Laite and Hallie Rubenhold

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Julia Laite discusses her book ​​The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey​​​ with Hallie Rubenhold, author of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize winning The Five, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival Spring Festival 2022 Online, available Friday 27 May to Monday 5 June. Book tickets here.

From the publisher:
An extraordinary story'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous…

From the publisher:
THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER___'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.' GUARDIAN___Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and…

From the publisher:
'A thrilling novel of female intrigue, betrayal and revenge. Read it!' LUCY WORSLEY'Dark and delicious' Red Magazine'Utterly gripping and highly relevant' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE_____________________Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic.…

From the publisher:
***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho'…

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