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A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness. The Love of a Bad Man imagines the lives of these and other real women -- Blanche, the sister-in-law to Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson's California girls, and Marceline Jones (wife of Jim) -- who were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various "bad" men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power and the nature of obsession. A mesmerizing exploration of the lengths some women will go to for the men they love.
About the Author
Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. Her first book The Wood of Suicides (2014) is a psychological novel about a student's affair with her English teacher. Her second book The Love of a Bad Man (forthcoming 2016) is a collection of fictional imaginings of the real-life wives, mistresses, and accomplices of historical 'bad' man. She is currently based in Melbourne and is working on her second novel, Beautiful Revolutionary.
