Title: Fred & Edie
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Trials (Murder), Women murderers, Executions and executioners, Married people, Fiction, Murder victims, Adultery, Fiction, legal, London (england), fiction, Married people, fiction, England, fiction
Places: London (England)
People: Percy Thompson (1890?-1922), Edith Thompson (1893-1923), Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (1902-1923)