Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 978-0-7538-2825-0 |
No of pages | 502 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Published Date | 26 Dec 2009 |
I am an award-winning author and freelance journalist. I trained as a journalist at Harlow Technical College before working in local newspapers and then specialising in health issues. I have worked freelance since 1991 and written for numerous national newspapers including the Guardian, Times, Sunday Telegraph and Express as well as for medical journals including the Lancet and BMJ. I currently write reviews, features and news stories for a wide range of national and specialist publications.
My first book, The Knife Man, a biography of the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, was published in 2005. It won the UK Medical Journalists' Association Consumer Book Award and was short-listed for the Marsh Biography Award and the Saltire Award. My second book, Wedlock, was published in 2009. It was picked for Channel 4's TV Book Club and reached no 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. It has been optioned for a possible TV series. My third book, How to Create the Perfect Wife, came out in 2013, and was widely acclaimed. All my books have been published in the UK and US and translated into various languages. My fourth book, The Mesmerist, is out now in hardback and paperback. I am currently writing a book about the Endell Street Military Hospital which was run by women in Covent Garden during World War One.
As an author I have given talks at numerous festivals and other events as well as speaking to many book groups and other organisations. In America I have lectured at the University of North Carolina, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons conference 2008, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, and the University of Toledo, Ohio. I have been interviewed on many occasions on radio and TV. I have a diploma in the History of Medicine from the Society of Apothecaries and won the Maccabean Prize for the best dissertation in 1999.
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WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray.
Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister.
But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with