Au Revoir Now Darlint

The Letters of Edith Thompson

Au Revoir Now Darlint
Laura Thompson
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Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 320pg
19 Jan 2023 UK
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9781800182462
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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. 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 Darlint, Laura Thompson - author of the CWA Gold Dagger-shortlisted Rex vs Edith Thompson - gathers the letters together alongside illuminating commentary to tell the story of an ordinary life and an extraordinary imagination that ultimately led to appalling tragedy.
Laura Thompson, who is unrelated to Edith, has been fascinated for many years by the Thompson-Bywaters case. She re-examined it in Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders, which was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction in 2018. Her other books include The Last Landlady, a memoir of her publican grandmother, published by Unbound in 2018; an Edgar-nominated biography of Agatha Christie; and the New York Times bestseller The Six, about the lives of the Mitford sisters.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800182462
Published: 19 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Unbound
Publisher: Unbound
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Pages: 320

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