The Five

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A TIMES Top Ten Best True Crime book: Groundbreaking. Extraordinary

TerrificIan Rankin
GrippingNEW YORK TIMES
At last, the Rippers victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper mythMAIL ON SUNDAY

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
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Polly, 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.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
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PRAISE FOR THE FIVE

Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage. LUCY WORSLEY
Fascinating, compelling, moving.BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding
An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.GUARDIAN
HauntingSUNDAY TIMES
What a brilliant and necessary book JO BAKER, author of Longbourn
Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart. ERIN KELLY
An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificentSPECTATOR
Deeply researchedTHE NEW YORKER

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