The Walnut Tree, 9780008559618
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Victorian women fight injustice: untold legal battles, shocking history revealed.
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The Walnut Tree

women, violence and the law – a hidden history

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    26 August 2025

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Summary

The Walnut Tree: Unearthing the Untold Stories of Women and the Law

‘Compulsively readable’ – Times Literary Supplement

‘An outstanding work’ – Philippa Gregory

‘A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity’ – Helen Fry, historian and author of *Women In Intelligence*

‘A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.’

So went the proverb …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008559618
ISBN-10:0008559619
Author:Kate Morgan
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mudlark
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:26 August 2025
Weight:560g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

‘Throughout this fine and eminently, even compulsively readable book, Morgan explores the greatest of all legal fictions: that the law applies equally to all… The Walnut Tree is a fascinating historical excursion and a powerful demand for change, moving seamlessly from history to current events, and back, to show not only that the past is not a foreign country, but that most of the time it is not even past.’ – Judith Flanders, Times Literary Supplement

‘Compulsively readable’ – Times Literary Supplement

‘An outstanding work’ – Philippa Gregory

‘A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity’ – Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence

About The Author

Kate Morgan

Kate Morgan qualified as a solicitor in 2008. She worked as a senior in-house lawyer in the water industry for a number of years and is currently a Company Secretary. Kate has also written for legal publications including the Commercial Litigation Journal and is a contributor to Slightly Foxed, a quarterly literary magazine. Murder: The Biography is her first book.

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