The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury
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The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury
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Narrated by:
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Elliot Fitzpatrick
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Buffy Davis
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By:
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Sean O'Connor
About this listen
‘Superbly evocative and gripping.’ The Spectator
‘Sean O’Connor can’t resist striking a theatrical note in this “biography of murder”.’ Sunday Times
Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth.
The Rattenbury case of 1935 was one of the great tabloid sensations of the interwar period. The glamorous femme fatale at the heart of the story dominated the front pages for months, somewhere between the rise of Hitler and the launch of the Queen Mary.
With painstaking research and access to brand new evidence, Sean O’Connor vividly brings this epic story to life, from its beginnings in the South London slums of the 1880s and the open vistas of the British Columbian coast, to its bloody climax in a respectable English seaside resort.
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a gripping murder story and a heartbreaking romance as well as the biography of a vital, modern woman trapped between the freedoms of two world wars and suffocated by the conformity of peacetime. A startlingly prescient parable for our times, it is the story of a woman who dared to challenge the status quo only to be crucified by public opinion, pilloried by the press and punished by the relentless machinery of the British legal system.
With a wealth of fascinating period detail, from its breathtaking opening to its shocking conclusion, The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a true story as enthralling, as provocative and as moving as any work of fiction.
©2019 Sean O'Connor (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Robyn
- 11-05-2023
Superb
I bought this book immediately after finishing Sean O'Connor's other audiobook, The Haunting of Borley Abbey. In Fatal Passion, master storyteller O'Connor paints a sympathetic portrait of Alma and those close to her who were caught up in the series of misfortunes and mistakes which marked her life. This is also a social history with migration, war, and changing social attitudes all playing a role in this tragic story. Elliot Fitzpatrick's narration is perfect, as is Buffy Davis's narration of Alma's letters and notes.
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