The Low Road

Author: Katharine Quarmby

by Tom Shakespeare 26th July 2024

At first, I worried that this would be a very bleak book. The context and material is grim. Based on a true story, beginning in Norfolk’s Waveney Valley in 1813, it tells the story of a young woman, Hannah Tyrell, whose mother has been imprisoned following the discovery of the dead body of her baby. Hannah then carries a preparation to her, so that her mother is able to die by suicide. She is buried with a stake through her heart.