{"product_id":"the-five","title":"The Five","description":"\u003cp\u003e____________________\u003cbr\u003eTHE Sunday Times BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times Summer read\u003cbr\u003eWashington Post Top Twenty books to read this summer\u003cbr\u003eA GQ summer read\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming'\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e'GRIPPING' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.\u003cbr\u003e__________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth.' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.'\u003cbr\u003eLUCY WORSLEY, author of bestselling Jane Austen at Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'How fitting that in the year when we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, dignity is finally returned to these unfortunate women.'\u003cbr\u003ePROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, author of bestselling All that Remains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly deserve to be thought of as more than eviscerated bodies on an East London street. This haunting book does something to redress that balance’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What a brilliant and necessary book'\u003cbr\u003eJO BAKER, author of Sunday Times bestselling Longbourn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A Ripper narrative that gives voice to the women he silenced; I’ve been waiting for this book for years. Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.’\u003cbr\u003eERIN KELLY, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said\/She Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An outstanding work of history-from-below … magnificent'\u003cbr\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59631655158094,"sku":"9781784162344","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/6775\/7390\/files\/9781784162344.jpg?v=1778509612","url":"https:\/\/intothewest.co.uk\/products\/the-five","provider":"Into the West Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}