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Fred and Edie

Fred and Edie


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In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy. The sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds at the Old Bailey, unravelled a real life drama as exciting as any blockbuster: an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, domestic violence, murder and a double execution. FRED AND EDIE draws together powerful threads between personal memory and public lives, between innocence and responsibility, and between fact and fiction. It is an exploration of a woman caught in the net of her own private fantasy and the conflicts of the era in which she lived, of her muddled attempt to defy convention and reshape her own destiny, and, finally, of the devastation she left in her wake.

About the Author :
Jill Dawson is an award-winning poet, novelist and editor of several anthologies including The Virago Book of Wicked Verse and, with Margo Daly, Wild Ways. Her first novel, Trick of the Light, has been optioned for a film and she is working on the screenplay of her second novel, Magpie (both published by Sceptre). 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. Born in the north of England, she has recently moved with her family from London to Cambridgeshire.

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It will captivate readers ... The real triumph of the novel is to make the fictionalised truth sound utterly convincing - a case of fiction not so much stranger as stronger than fact. Edie is so wonderful, so bitterly honest about herself, expecially her understanding of her own sensual nature. And the sex is beautifully written about. Jill Dawson magnificently gets into the woman's skin and makes the whole act sublime - Margaret Forster

Jill Dawson's deft ability to map the territory of the heart, as well as the head, lends grace and conviction to this fictionalised version of a true story. FRED AND EDIE is a captivating account of a strangely impassioned, and compelling, love affair - Caryl Phillips

Gripping...Dawson has got brilliantly under the skin of her main character. Her polished prose is consistently stylish and her descriptions of the sexual act, from a woman's viewpoint, are both lyrical and sublime - Daily Mail

'It is a triumphantly good novel, a feat of sustained and heart-breaking negative capability that impressively presents 'Edie' in the very light in which she saw herself...Her adoration of Freddy; her torment when her letters are read in public; her blackout shock at the death sentence - all such feelings are beautifully rendered - Lynne Truss, Sunday Times

Powerful ... Throws a harsh light not so much on Edith as on the society that judged


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780340751664
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publisher Imprint: Sceptre
  • Height: 28 mm
  • Weight: 448 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0340751665
  • Publisher Date: 17 Aug 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Spine Width: 221 mm
  • Width: 144 mm


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