Au Revoir Now Darlint: The Letters of Edith Thompson

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ISBN 13: 9781800182462
ISBN 10: 1800182465
Publisher: Unbound
Book Description: As seen on Woman''s Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily TelegraphA 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 Ediths lover: Frederick Bywaters, a merchant seaman aged twenty. Bywaters was hanged for murder on 9 January 1923. So too was Edith Thompson.There was no evidence, of any kind, that she was involved with the killing. What condemned Edith were the letters that she had written 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 DarlintLaura Thompson author of the CWA Gold Dagger-shortlisted Rex vs Edith Thompson gathers the letters together alongsideilluminating commentary to tell the story of an ordinary life and an extraordinary imagination that ultimately led to appalling tragedy.
About the Author: Laura Thompson read English at Oxford. Her first book, The Dogs, won the Somerset Maugham Award. While living in Newmarket she wrote two books about horse racing, followed by a biography of Nancy Mitford (reissued 2019), a major study of Agatha Christie and a book about Lord Lucan.The Six, a group biography of the Mitford sisters, published in the US in 2016, was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent book, Rex v Edith Thompson, was shortlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger award, and her biography of Agatha Christie recently published in the US was nominated for a 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Language: English
Author: Laura Thompson
Publication Date: 1/19/2023
Number of Pages: 320.0