Fred & Edie

In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class
woman who worked in a milliner`s shop, was tried for conspiring with
her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy. The
sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds at the
Old Bailey, unravelled a real life drama as exciting as any
blockbuster: an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, domestic
violence, murder and a double execution. FRED AND EDIE draws together
powerful threads between personal memory and public lives, between
innocence and responsibility, and between fact and fiction. It is an
exploration of a woman caught in the net of her own private fantasy and
the conflicts of the era in which she lived, of her muddled attempt to
defy convention and reshape her own destiny, and, finally, of the
devastation she left in her wake.