Showing Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson
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In December 1922, Edith Thompson, a lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her lover Frederick to murder her husband. The sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds, unravelled an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, domestic violence, murder and a double execution.
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