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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: F. Tennyson Jesse

Tags: historical crime london murder true adultry

Description: Stolen from Amazon: This book is based on a celebrated scandal in England -- the Thompson-BywatersStolen from Amazon: This book is based on a celebrated scandal in England -- the Thompson-Bywaters murder. It is one of my favourite novels. Jesse creates early on a mood of brooding sexual danger without any overt sexual references at all. How this leads Julia to destroy her life makes a gripping and sad book....

2006-09-03