The tale of Jack the Ripper is one that has been told in a variety of ways, however the one told by author Brandy Purdy in The Ripper’s Wife is an entirely new (and refreshing) angle. But Florie has no inkling of her husband's depravity until she discovers his diary-and in it, a litany of bloody deeds.” James's secrets are infinitely darker-he has a mistress, an arsenic addiction, and a vicious temper. Florie, hardly the heiress her scheming mother portrayed, is treated as an outsider by fashionable English society. Courtship and a lavish wedding soon follow, and the couple settles into an affluent Liverpool suburb.įrom the first, their marriage is doomed by lies. “It begins as a fairytale romance-a shipboard meeting in 1880 between vivacious Southern belle Florence Chandler and handsome English cotton broker James Maybrick. Source: Received book for review as part of HF Virtual Book Tour
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