BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE-WINNER, THE FIVE, THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER

'Under her pen, history comes alive' Professor Dame Sue Black
'A fabulous 18th-century tale. Hallie Rubenhold tells it beautifully' Telegraph
'As a historian and storyteller, Rubenhold is in a league of her own' Literary Review
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It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England...

She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history.

For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley's story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader.

The book behind the major BBC drama starring Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, Mockingjay)

The story of the Worsley divorce has never been revealed before, and Hallie Rubenhold tells it with panache. Her account of the elopement is gripping but this is far more than an 18th-century bodice-ripper. Rubenhold combines narrative skill with historical expertise, and she traces the knife-edge that women walked between social success and public disgrace with subtlety and assurance * SPECTATOR *
A fabulous Eighteenth-century tale and Rubenhold tells it beautifully * TELEGRAPH *
The Scandalous Lady W takes its subject from a zesty period... Rubenhold is sure-footed in her research... Her special forte is rakes and roués * SUNDAY TIMES *
As a historian and a storyteller, Hallie Rubenhold is in a league of her own. She keeps you glued to the very last page when, exhausted, exasperated and elated, you can at last put the book down and get yourself some sleep. The Scandalous Lady W should come with a warning: nothing else in the genre is close to being this good * LITERARY REVIEW *

Hallie Rubenhold is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five: The Untold Lives of 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 also the author of The Covent Garden Ladies, which was the inspiration behind BBC TV’s Harlots. Her acclaimed biographical work, Lady Worsley’s Whim, was dramatized by the BBC and reissued as The Scandalous Lady W. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen, explores the history of Crippen’s victims in turn of the century England and America. 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.