Kate Summerscale

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born

January 01, 1965

gender

female

place of birth

London, The United Kingdom

website

http://www.mrwhicher.com/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Kate Summerscale (born in 1965) is an award-winning English writer and journalist.

She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House[1] which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water', which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography.

She worked for The Independent and from 1995 to 1996 she wrote and edited obituaries for The Daily Telegraph.[2] She is the former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph[3][4]. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.[5]

She has also judged va...more

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avg rating: 3.39 | 1,211 ratings | 404 reviews | 4 distinct works | 1 fan

	The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale avg rating 3.39 — 919 ratings — published 2008 18 editions	my rating:
	The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 1997 8 editions	my rating:
	AFFAIRE DE ROAD HILL HOUSE -L' by Kate Summerscale, Eric Chedaille avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	Private Lives Collection: "Iris - A Memoir of Iris Murdoch", "Dangerous Ground", "The Queen of Whale Cay" by John Bayley, Kate Summerscale, Roger Cook (Reader), Derek Jacobi (Reader), Sophie Ward (Reader) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002	my rating: