Samuel Johnson prize: 'I feel completely dazed and amazed'

Lindesay Irvine meets Kate Summerscale, the winner of the 2008 Samuel Johnson prize

'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher', the 2008 Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize winner.


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