![]() ![]() Summerscale also wrote the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, "fastest woman on water", which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography. ![]() She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, based on a real-life crime committed by Constance Kent and investigated by Jack Whicher, a book described in Literary Review as an altogether "deft 21st-century piece of cultural detection" which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in journalism from Stanford University. Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House ![]()
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