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"London, 1922. Edith Thompson, an attractive, confident, financially independent 27-year-old woman, married during the Great War but soon finds her suburban life - and husband, Percy - stifling. Excited by the new freedoms available to women, dreaming of the kind of romantic and glamorous world she finds in novels and in films, she takes a lover, Frederick Bywaters, who is seven years her junior.".
"Never in her wildest dreams could Edie have imagined the devastating end to her illicit romance: Bywaters, in a fit of jealousy, stabs Percy Thompson to death as he and his wife walk home one night from the theater. And in a sensational case that captures the imagination of an entire nation, Fred and Edie are summarily tried, convicted and hanged at the gallows - even as a petition to spare their lives receives more than one million signatures.".
"Based on a true story, Fred & Edie is a dramatic novel of passion, murder and a spectacular public trial at a time of momentous change for women. Drawing on extensive research, poet and academic Jill Dawson creates a marvelously intimate, realistic and convincing account of a strangely ardent and compelling love affair."--BOOK JACKET.
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Trials (Murder), Women murderers, Executions and executioners, Married people, Fiction, Murder victims, Adultery, Fiction, legal, London (england), fiction, Married people, fiction, England, fictionPeople
Percy Thompson (1890?-1922), Edith Thompson (1893-1923), Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (1902-1923)Places
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Fred & Edie: a novel
2002, Mariner Books
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- 1st Mariner books ed.
0618197281 9780618197286
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Fred and Edie
March 15, 2001, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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0340751673 9780340751671
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Fred & Edie
2001, Welcome Rain Publishers
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156649222X 9781566492225
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