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Watson's Apology
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Richard Attlee
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 12 February 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Anne Armstrong shares a squalid room in Dublin with her sister. Then a hasty marriage to John Watson, a former cleric and newly appointed teacher, transports her to a life of almost equal hardship and frustration in South London. There she receives no attention, no love, for Watson dedicates it all to his books.
At last her only pleasure is to provoke her husband – until he puts a stop to her defiance with a gun.
Watson’s Apology reconstructs the events leading up to the Stockwell Tragedy, giving a compelling indictment of Victorian marriage.
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Details
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Richard Attlee
- Duration
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399198974
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Humour, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Historical fiction, True crime
Synopsis
Anne Armstrong shares a squalid room in Dublin with her sister. Then a hasty marriage to John Watson, a former cleric and newly appointed teacher, transports her to a life of almost equal hardship and frustration in South London. There she receives no attention, no love, for Watson dedicates it all to his books. At last her only pleasure is to provoke her husband – until he puts a stop to her defiance with a gun. Watson’s Apology reconstructs the events leading up to the Stockwell Tragedy, giving a compelling indictment of Victorian marriage.
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