By Noeline Kyle

A brutal homicide of a kid within the English village of highway in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime till the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865.

If you're a real crime fanatic, in the event you ask yourself approximately what occurs to a girl, a man or woman, when they confess, are attempted after which imprisoned for two decades you are going to get pleasure from Noeline Kyle’s tracing of Constance Kent’s amazing existence sooner than, in the course of and after this lousy crime.

Constance Kent informed as a nurse on the Alfred sanatorium in Melbourne, labored on the Coast health facility at Little Bay, was once matron of the infamous Parramatta business institution for ladies and matron of a nurses’ domestic in Maitland, she was once a convicted murderess yet lived to the grand previous age of a hundred lower than an assumed identify and never as soon as did someone within the Antipodes suspect her real identity.

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