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.
發表於2024-11-29
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圖書標籤: 英國 novel, muder, letter court, British,
a moving love story based on a real murder case in the 1920s London. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
評分a moving love story based on a real murder case in the 1920s London. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
評分a moving love story based on a real murder case in the 1920s London. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
評分a moving love story based on a real murder case in the 1920s London. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
評分a moving love story based on a real murder case in the 1920s London. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Fred & Edie 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載