- Publisher: British Library
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 188x130mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9780712353595
- Product code: 527368
A Pin to See the Peepshow
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Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) wrote nine novels, plus plays, poetry and short stories, and she was one of the first female war correspondents; but her principal interest was in crime. Published in 1934, this novel is a fictionalized account of the Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters affair, a famous case of adultery and murder in the 1920s.
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Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the personal freedom that she craves but escape from her parental home into marriage soon leads to boredom and frustration. She begins a passionate affair with a younger man, which has deadly consequences.
Based on the events of a sensational murder trial in the 1920s - the Thompson/Bywaters case - Julia becomes trapped by her sex and class in a criminal justice system in which she has no control. Julia finds herself the victim of society's expectations of lower-middle-class female behaviour and incriminated by her own words. Tennyson Jesse creates a flawed, doomed heroine in a novel of creeping unease that continues to haunt long after the last page is turned.
Based on the events of a sensational murder trial in the 1920s - the Thompson/Bywaters case - Julia becomes trapped by her sex and class in a criminal justice system in which she has no control. Julia finds herself the victim of society's expectations of lower-middle-class female behaviour and incriminated by her own words. Tennyson Jesse creates a flawed, doomed heroine in a novel of creeping unease that continues to haunt long after the last page is turned.
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