num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fred & Edie
titlecomplete: Fred & Edie
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Historical Fiction, True Crime, British Literature, Historical, Unfinished
ratings_count: 460
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers