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Fred and Edie (Paperback)
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|Short Description for Fred and EdieIn December 1922, Edith Thompson, a lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her lover Frederick to murder her husband. The sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds, unravelled an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, domestic violence, murder and a double execution.
Full description- Publisher: Sceptre
- Published: 28 December 2006
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780340936283 ISBN 10: 0340936282
- Sales rank: 326,014
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Full description for Fred and Edie
In December 1922, Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy. The sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds at the Old Bailey, unravelled a real life drama as exciting as any blockbuster: an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, domestic violence, murder and a double execution. "Fred and Edie" draws together powerful threads between personal memory and public lives, between innocence and responsibility, and between fact and fiction. It is an exploration of a woman caught in the net of her own private fantasy and the conflicts of the era in which she lived, of her muddled attempt to defy convention and reshape her own destiny, and, finally, of the devastation she left in her wake.
