Phoebe Hogg: A Life In The Shadows: The Hampstead Case, Mary Pearcey, and the price of respectability (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245107776)

In 1890 London, Phoebe Hogg is a young wife and mother trying to survive the soot, the rent, and a marriage that offers little safety. Then she vanishes-and her name is swallowed by a scandal the city can't stop consuming.

At the centre stands Mary Pearcey: the "other woman," a figure the newspapers are eager to turn into a monster. A pram, a jealous narrative, and a courtroom hungry for certainty propel the case toward a verdict that satisfies the public... but leaves haunting questions behind.

Phoebe Hogg: A Life in the Shadows retells the Hampstead case through the woman history forgot-unearthing the cost of respectability, the violence of silence, and the brutal machinery that transforms private tragedy into public spectacle.