Fred & Edie
By: Jill Dawson.
Edition: 1st Welcome Rain ed.
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Bywaters, Frederick Edward Francis, 1902-1923 -- Fiction.; Thompson, Percy, 1890?-1922 -- Fiction.; Thompson, Edith, 1893-1923 -- Fiction.; Executions and executioners -- Fiction.; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.; Women murderers -- Fiction.; Murder victims -- Fiction.; Married people -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; London (England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Fred and Edie
Description: "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.