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Overview'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith's lover. When the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy – some of them couched in ambiguous language – were read out at their trial for murder at the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura ThompsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Head of Zeus ISBN: 9781784082468ISBN 10: 1784082465 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 04 October 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'Laura Thompson has written a stunning, passionate and unforgettable book which will hopefully bring some balance to the story of Edith Thompson and Freddy Bywaters' Shiny New Books. 'In this compelling book you enter [Edith's] world, root for her, and come out filled with rage and dismay at a society that showed her no mercy' Evening Standard. 'In this compelling book you enter [Edith's] world, root for her, and come out filled with rage and dismay at a society that showed her no mercy' Evening Standard. Author InformationLaura Thompson is the award-winning author of Life in a Cold Climate: A Biography of Nancy Mitford; A Different Class of Murder: the Story of Lord Lucan and Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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