Pin to See the Peepshow
Part of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editionsJulia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a…
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Part of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editionsJulia 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 behavior and incriminated by her own words.