Fred & Edie

by Jill Dawson

Published 17 August 2000
In 1922, Edith Thompson and her young lover Frederick were tried for the murder of Edith's husband. The sensational trial unravelled an illicit love affair, a backstreet abortion, domestic violence, murder and finally a double execution. This novel is interspersed with imaginary scenes and monlogues as well as real and imagined letters.