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`Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.¿ 
 
On his last night in London before travelling north to new employment, Walter Hartright walks the lonely, moonlit road to his family home. Lost in thought, he is interrupted by a mysterious woman dressed all in white. The brief, somewhat distressing encounter is to trigger a chain of strange events that will greatly affect not only Walter, but the lives of those he holds dearest. 

Wilkie Collins based his most famous novel on a real-life eighteenth-century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. First published in 1859, The Woman in White caused a sensation with its chilling, suspenseful plotline and remains one of the greatest mystery stories in English literature.