The Wicked Boy

Kate Summerscale, Jot Davies, Audible Studios

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English

Bolinda/Audible Audio
28 December 2016

Fiction & Literature; Crime & criminology

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-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 and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 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.

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.

By: Kate Summerscale
Producer: Audible Studios
Read by: Jot Davies
Imprint: Bolinda/Audible Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781489373298
ISBN 10: 1489373292
Publication Date: 28 December 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Wicked Boy

'Ms. Summerscale has found a nifty literary specialty: resurrecting and reanimating, in detail as much forensic as it is novelistic, notorious true-life tales of the Victorian era …' -- The New York Times 'Irresistible.' -- New York Times Book Review 'This well-written story is not so much a true-crime tale or murder mystery as an excellent sociological study of turn-of-the-20th-century England.' -- Kirkus Reviews