'THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 'Powerful and shaming' Guardian
Hallie Rubenhold is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder, the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen, will be published in March 2025. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold
FIVE STARS: At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An
eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper
myth.
*Mail on Sunday*
How fitting that in the year when we celebrate the 100th
anniversary of women’s suffrage, dignity is finally returned to
these unfortunate women.
*Professor Dame Sue Black, author of ALL THAT REMAINS*
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.
*Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID/SHE SAID*
What a brilliant and necessary book
*Jo Baker, author of LONGBOURN*
Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears of pity and of
rage.
*LUCY WORSLEY*
Forests have been felled in the interests of unmasking the
murderer, but until now no one has bothered to discover the
identity of his victims. The Five is thus an angry and important
work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has
fed the Ripper myth. . . This is a powerful and a shaming book, but
most shameful of all is that it took 130 years to write.
*Guardian*
By collating these five deeply affecting biographies ... Rubenhold
has given these women the immortality that their murderer does not
deserve.
*Daily Mail*
Stupendous. The sort of work that keeps history vital.
*IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR, author of THE MERMAID AND MRS HANCOCK*
Fascinating, compelling, moving, The Five makes a fierce,
passionate argument about the ethics of how we engage with murder.
A brilliant,properly thoughtful, responsible piece of political
writing.
*BRIDGET COLLINS, author of THE BINDING*
‘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*
A highly readable work of rigorous scholarship that plunges the
reader into the claustrophobic world of late 19th-century London...
The story of these five women – Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, Annie
Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly –
is not one of death, but one of life.
*NewStatesman*
A Sunday Times must-read.
*Sunday Times*
Fascinating and hugely important book acts as a timely reminder of
what happens when society ceases to care for its most vulnerable
residents.
*Herald Scotland*
This confidently written book gives a rich insight into the world
of the wretched in the late Victorian period. Rubenhold writes in a
compassionate but unsentimental style…
*Literary Review*
An outstanding work of history-from-below … magnificent
*The Spectator*
Urges us to look beyond the familiar stories... The Five challenges
the accepted view of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper,
and tells the untold stories of their lives.
*History Revealed*
THE FIVE has received deservedly rave reviews. It's gripping.
*New York Times*
A brilliant and important book that will reshape how this case is
studied - anyone interested in social history or the history of
crime owes a debt to @HallieRubenhold
*EMMA FLINT*
Becomes a passionate indictment of the true-crime genre, with its
fixation on the minds of murderers and its shallow, glancing
sympathy for the dead. Hard-edged and heartbreaking
*Washington Post*
Our fascination with true crime means we often focus on the
perpertrator, such as Ted Bundy, rather than the victims. It's time
to stop focusing on the killer and start remembering the victims:
Polly, Annie, Catherine and Mary-Jane
*Stylist*
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