London, 1922, Edith Thompson, an attractive, confident, financially independent 27-year-old woman, had married during the Great War but soon found her suburban life―and husband, Percy―stifling. Excited by the new freedoms available to women, dreaming of the kind of romantic and glamorous world she found in novels and films, she took a lover, Frederick Bywaters, who was several years her junior. Never in her wildest dreams could Edie have forseen the devastating end to her illicit romance.
