The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder of Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale
(Click book cover for detail)
We are so happy to let you know that Kate Summerscale has won the very prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize!
Please find below some of the articles from the press on Wednesday, July 16, 2008:
The book has already been a bestseller in the UK and US and the rights sold so far are as follows: UK: Bloomsbury (pub April 2008), US: Walker & Co.; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; France: Bourgois; Germany: Bloomsbury; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; Italy: Einaudi; Russia: AST; Spain: Lumen (Random House Mondadori).
The book has been published in France by Christian Bourgois Editeur, under the title “The Road Hill House Affair”. They currently have 6,000 copies in the bookstores and it has been getting some wonderful reviews. Here is one of them translated into English and please scroll down to find it and seven other French reviews quoted in their original French.
“More novelistic than a work of fiction and more original than an essay. Like Truman Capote, in his time with In Cold Blood, could it be that Kate Summerscale has also invented a new literary genre?” - Elle (France)
Interestinglythe book is being published in Spain as “The Murder at Road Hill House” and both the Spanish and French publishers are publishing it as though it were a work of fiction.