Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Haunting of Alma Fielding, The Wicked Boy, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace and The Queen of Whale Cay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph). She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.