It’s hard to imagine a book about an infamous Victorian England murderess turned Australian nurse being anything other than scandalous. But Noeline Kyle’s book A Greater Guilt (Boolarong Press) takes a measured look at the less chronicled half of Constance Kent’s life, finding a fulfilling career and a gradual acceptance of the past.

A Greater Guilt is a scholarly/popular history where Noeline interrogates the events of the murder  of Constance’s 3 year-old half-brother in Wiltshire, England in1860, her confession in 1865 and, linking that brutal past to the later years,  writes a fascinating story about Constance Kent’s life in prison and her more than 50 years in Australia.

Based on years of historical research Noeline has reconstructed the astonishing events of the Road murder and lives of the Kent family and their descendants -  and  writes a full and complete biography of Constance Emilie Kent, from her birth in 1844 to her death in 1944. A Greater Guilt offers new and controversial conclusions about the perpetrator of the crime, about family secrets, the myths of women’s lives and the making up of history.

A Greater Guilt is available in bookshops  ISBN: 9781921555343   Price: $32.95   

 

From the publisher at: http://www.boolarongpress.com.au,

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