A Cruel Love
The Real Ruth Ellis Story
$35.45
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2025
Summary
The shocking true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain - now a major ITV drama.
Soon to be an ITV drama starring Lucy Boynton, A Cruel Love is the definitive story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain. Previously published as A Fine Day for a Hanging.
‘A forensically researched book that casts a haunting new light on the last woman to be hanged in Britain.’ - DAILY MAIL
In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot her…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910948316 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910948314 |
| Author: | Carol Ann Lee |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
A forensically researched book [that] casts a haunting new light on the last woman to be hanged in Britain. * Daily Mail *
Worthy of Truman Capote – Laurence Marks, playwright and screenwriter
Wonderful … it will become the standard reference on Ruth Ellis – Stewart P. Evans, crime historian
A brilliantly researched epilogue of the doomed relationships that produced two children and one divorce and Ellis’s catastrophic final days … All the compelling detail is here in Lee’s overwhelming story, which puts Ellis’s life into perspective * Camden New Journal *
About The Author
Carol Ann Lee
Carol Ann Lee is a Sunday Times bestselling author of true crime and historical biography. She has also written novels and books for children. She has written extensively on the Holocaust and the Moors Murders, and specialises in telling the stories of women whose lives have been shaped by violence.
Her biography of Ruth Ellis, A Fine Day for a Hanging (2013), was shortlisted for the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger and is the inspiration for Silverprints’s 2025 drama for ITV, A Cruel Love. Her true crime books have also included the definitive study of the Moors Murders case, One of Your Own - The life and death of Myra Hyndley (2010), and The Murders at White House Farm (2015). The latter was also adapted into a highly acclaimed ITV drama which won a TV Choice Award.
Carol Ann Lee currently lives in Yorkshire and this is her thirteenth book.
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