A dark and humid night on a London highway… a ghostly woman asking directions… and the reader is away on a tale of deceit murder madness stolen identities and scheming cads elaborate plots and outrageous coincidences in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters in fiction. Hailed as a classic the moment it was written in 1859 The Woman in White uses a dozen different narrators to tell the tale of a man’s determination to save the woman he loves in the face of the worst intentions of the sly Sir Percival Glyde and the magnificent Count Fosco.