Summerscale also wrote a bio I haven't seen (not in the true crime section of the library) about Joe Carstairs (born Marion).

Never really grokked before how useful a "non-consummation annulment" can be if you're going into a church marriage for legal/financial reasons...

Summoning Kate SummerscaleReddit thinks the parents were narcissists who raised another damaged narcissistic. The Telegraph (second link) definitely takes the line of "bad seed ( Read more... )

What an asshole.