It all started after I moved into a two bedroom terraced house in north London, built in the 1890s. This novel is based in part on the real story of two Edwardian ‘baby farmers’ who were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903. In the first episode, which aired on Channel 5 on October 23rd 2014, I talk about the case of Sach and Walters. “The author’s exhaustive research has the same ability as Sarah Waters to vividly bring to life a particular period in history,”Īvailable as a large print, eBook, and Audio book ( Isis).Ī documentary series ‘ Inside Holloway‘, made by WildfireTV, looks at the history of Europe’s largest women’s prison. “In this dark thriller Caitlin Davies uses the haunted house as the frame for a disturbing story – based on a true case – of cruelty and exploitation in Victorian London,” History, we discover, begins with where we live and the people who lived in our homes before us,” History Today (Davies) represents historical research as exciting, romantic and as offering personal catharsis. “Big, rich and entertaining,” Saga Magazine Published by Hutchinson 2011, Windmill 2012.
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