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Jane Messer

Jane Messer is the editor of Certifiable Truths: Stories of love and madness.

Jane Messer reviews 'Wilde Eve – Eve Langley’s Story' edited by Lucy Frost

July 1999, no. 212 01 July 1999
On a day which began with Eve finding her children ‘half naked and purple with cold … crying on their bed’, she was visited by a detective. He was there to ask questions because ‘La Gauss’, the old woman who let rooms to the family, had accused Eve’s husband of stealing. Langley let him know that she wrote everything down, including all of La Gauss’s lies, and that she would one day ... (read more)