Lady Killers Live at Hay Festival

Sarah joined Lucy Worsley earlier this year, at Hay Literature Festival, to record the first in a new series of Lady Killers, which you can now hear on BBC Sounds. They explore the lives of women like Edith Thompson, a jumping off point for Sarah’s own The Paying Guests ; then there’s Maria Manning who was reincarnated as an ‘imperfectly tamed’ French maid Hortense by Charles Dickens in his…