Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson
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.
It will captivate readers.. The real triumph of the novel is to make the fictionalised truth sound utterly convincing - a case of fiction not so much stranger as stronger than fact. Edie is so wonderful, so bitterly honest about herself, expecially her understanding of her own sensual nature. And the sex is beautifully written about. Jill Dawson magnificently gets into the woman's skin and makes the whole act sublime - Margaret ForsterJill Dawson's deft ability to map the territory of the heart, as well as the head, lends grace and conviction to this fictionalised version of a true story. FRED AND EDIE is a captivating account of a strangely impassioned, and compelling, love affair - Caryl PhillipsGripping...Dawson has got brilliantly under the skin of her main character. Her polished prose is consistently stylish and her descriptions of the sexual act, from a woman's viewpoint, are both lyrical and sublime - Daily Mail'It is a triumphantly good novel, a feat of sustained and heart-breaking negative capability that impressively presents 'Edie' in the very light in which she saw herself...Her adoration of Freddy; her torment when her letters are read in public; her blackout shock at the death sentence - all such feelings are beautifully rendered - Lynne Truss, Sunday TimesPowerful ... Throws a harsh light not so much on Edith as on the society that judged
Jill Dawson is an award-winning poet, novelist and editor of several anthologies including The Virago Book of Wicked Verse and, with Margo Daly, Wild Ways. Her first novel, Trick of the Light, has been optioned for a film and she is working on the screenplay of her second novel, Magpie (both published by Sceptre). She was the British Council Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts in l997 and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Writing at the University of East Anglia. Born in the north of England, she has recently moved with her family from London to Cambridgeshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340751664 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340751665 |
| Title | Fred and Edie |
| Author | Jill Dawson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2000-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2000 |
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