The Five

The amount of information that the author has been able to gather about five women about whom I previously knew: their names, that they were prostitutes (which turns out not to be true), and that Elizabeth Stride was from Sweden, is astounding.

The book is very interesting, and paints a stark picture of what it could be like to be a woman, and poor in times past. The story of these women is heartbreaking, and not only - nor primarily - because of Jack the Ripper.