The Finest Type of English Womanhood

Rachel Heath

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Hardback (21 Apr 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Set in England and in post-war, pre-apartheid Johannesburg, the story is based on a real-life murder of a young woman on a ship in 1947, and about the doubtful circumstances surrounding the trial and the man found guilty of the murder.

About the Publisher

Hutchinson

Founded in 1887 by George Hutchinson with capital of three thousand pounds, Hutchinson opened for business in the basement of 25 Paternostor Row, near St Paul's Cathedral. It is the home of fiction that you have to press into the hands of your friends and non-fiction that is entertaining and erudite. We publish bestsellers, Helen Dunmore, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Douglas Kennedy and Ruth Rendell, book club favourites, Aimee Bender, Anna Quindlen. We are committed to discovering new talent that combine a distinctive voice with great storytelling skills and recent acquisitions include Bonnie Nadzam, longlisted for the Women's Prize, New York Times bestsellers, Sloane Crosley, Ayana Mathis, Marisha Pessl and Amor Towles.

Book information

ISBN:	9780091925864
Publisher:	Random House UK
Imprint:	Hutchinson
Pub date:	21 Apr 2009
Edition:	Hardback original
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	376
Weight:	638g
Height:	239mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	34mm