Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.
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Bloomsbury presents The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale, read by Lissa Berry. 'Jaw-droppingly amazing' DAILY MAIL WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a Br... SEE MORE