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London, 1922, Edith Thompson, an attractive, confident, financially independent 27-year-old woman, had married during the Great War but soon found 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 found in novels and films, she took a lover, Frederick Bywaters, who was several years her junior. Never in her wildest dreams could Edie have forseen the devastating end to her illicit romance.
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Jill Dawson is an award-winning poet, novelist and editor of several anthologies. She was the British Council Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts in l997 and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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In a dazzling act of literary license, the novelist and poet Jill Dawson has transformed the sensational true story of Britain's infamous condemned adulteress into a dramatic novel of passion, murder, and scandal, as seductive as it is shocking. One night in London in 1922, a clerk named Percy Thompson is stabbed to death as he walks home from the theater. The spectacular case that follows captures the imagination of an entire nation, as Percy's wife, Edith, and her young lover, Frederick Bywaters, are imprisoned, summarily tried, and hanged for murder, even as a petition to spare their lives receives more than one million signatures.
Stylish, tantalizing, with descriptions of the sex act from a woman's viewpoint [that] are both lyrical and sublime (Daily Mail), FRED & EDIE is a hauntingly authentic portrait of a woman whose passio ultimately leads to her destruction. Reminiscent of both Lady Chatterley and Emma Bovary, Jill Dawson's Edie falls into the category of the unforgettable.
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- PublisherWelcome Rain Publishers
- Publication date2001
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- ISBN 13 9781566492225
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