The second-last woman in England
By: Maggie Joel
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781741964820
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Families; Nineteen fifties; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: In London's South Kensington, Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenced to death by hanging. Set in the post-war period when a well-to-do British family's existence is ruled by a strict set of conventions this is an exploration of the emotions that are always there but rarely surface.