MONKEY AMONG CROCODILES - Harper Perennial

The disastrous life of Mrs Georgina Weldon. The true story of Georgina's life, a steamy stew of society gossip, adultery and litigation, is far stranger than fiction. She was one of those 'bad women' whom the Victorians liked to write out of history. Thompson has written her life like a novel, seeing the feckless Georgina as a Victorian Fergie, the over-the-top author of her own misfortunes. Her life may have been a chapter of fiascos.