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Au Revoir Now Darlint
- The Letters of Edith Thompson
Engelsk Hardback
Au Revoir Now Darlint
- The Letters of Edith Thompson
Engelsk Hardback

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As seen on Woman''s Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily Telegraph

A hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was his wife, twenty-eight-year-old Edith. His killer was Edith’s lover: Frederick Bywaters, a merchant seaman aged twenty. Bywaters was hanged for murder on 9 January 1923. So too was Edith Thompson.

Despite a lack of any tangible evidence linking her to the murder, Edith found herself condemned by a society steeped in sexism. What sealed her fate were the letters she had penned to her lover, which were interpreted by the law as incitement to murder. These letters are remarkable documents. Charged with the vitality of Edith''s voice, they are moving, perplexing, maddening, banal, spectacularly sensual, infused with a stream-of-consciousness immediacy. And they have never been collected in print, until now.

In Au Revoir Now Darlint Laura Thompson – author of the CWA Gold Dagger-shortlisted Rex vs Edith Thompson – gathers the letters together alongside illuminating commentary to tell the remarkable story of a woman ahead of her time and an extraordinary imagination that ultimately led to appalling tragedy.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781800182462
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1800182465
Udg. Dato:
19 jan 2023
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
147mm
Forlag:
Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Oplagsdato:
19 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
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