Dimensions
128 x 195 x 18mm
'Fred & Edie' explores the true story of Edith Thompson, a woman no less notorious in her time than Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England. Set in Ilford in the early 1920s, an era when the Great War had left a backwash of lop-sided morality, and yet the roles for women were more confused than ever, this is a beguiling story of an attractive, ambitious woman who was charged with conspiring to murder her husband.
Drawing on sensational newspaper reports of the time as well as letters by Edie to her young lover Fred, the novel creates an intimate, tantalising voice for Edie as the story unfolds of how she came to be on trial for her life at the Old Bailey. Was Edie simply ahead of her time or did she collude in her own fate? Teasing out answers to a compelling mystery, this is a novel of entrancing imagination, sensitivity and grace.
