The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Short-listed for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography · Winner of the Lambda Literary Award
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Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness about ‘congenital inverts’ put her publishers, Jonathan Cape, on trial in 1928. The book was banned. The Attorney General described it as ‘propaganda for the practice which has long been known as Lesbianism… it is corrupting and obscene and its publication is a misdemeanour.’ Radclyffe Hall’s life was an emotional trial too.
This reviewer found herself engrossed from page one. Carried along at breakneck speed by the pace and wit of Souhami’s style. Fascinating and frightening, a magnificent book.
Teresa Waugh · The Spectator
An outrageously entertaining book
Victoria Glendinning · Daily Telegraph