Description
The case of Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters, both hanged for murder in 1923.
About the Author
Laura Thompson is the award-winning author of Life in a Cold Climate: A Biography of Nancy Mitford; A Different Class of Murder: the Story of Lord Lucan and Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters.
Reviews
In this compelling book you enter [Edith's] world, root for her, and come out filled with rage and dismay at a society that showed her no mercy * Evening Standard *
Laura Thompson has written a stunning, passionate and unforgettable book which will hopefully bring some balance to the story of Edith Thompson and Freddy Bywaters * Shiny New Books *
Extraordinarily gripping: by turns titillating, moving, shocking, and in its final pages, producing feelings of sickened revulsion in this reader * TLS *
The Thompson-Bywaters case was one of the most lurid murder trials of the Twenties. Edith Thompson and her young love Freddy Bywaters were hanged for the murder of Edith's husband, but Laura Thompson argues passionately that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice * Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year *
The author brilliantly evokes a world significantly different from our own in many ways - while remaining very much the same in others - and the organisation of her material is really impressive * Crime Review *
The precursor to the Villa Madeira murder. The prewar justice system exacts terrible retribution on a woman who had the temerity to take a young lover * The Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784082468
Author Laura Thompson
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC