The second-last woman in England
by Maggie Joel
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In London's South Kensington, Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenced to death by hanging. Set in the post-war period when a well-to-do British family's existence is ruled by a strict set of conventions this is an exploration of the emotions that are always there but rarely surface.
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Fiction, Murder, Families, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, Nineteen fifties, Social life and customsPlaces
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The second-last woman in England
2012, Felony & Mayhem Press
in English
- 1st Felony & Mayhem ed.
1934609994 9781934609996
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1953: Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenced to death by hanging. 1952: The Wallises appear to be a conventional household. When the police turn up at the front door, on the day a new nanny arrives, a chain of events is set in motion that will culminate in Cecil's murder. An employee at Cecil's firm has embezzled money and Cecil is implicated. Meanwhile, his wife Harriet is dismayed by the reappearance of a man she did not expect to see again ...
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