The Second-Last Woman in England
Pier 9, $32.95 pb, 339 pp
Fiction
The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel
by Rhyll McMaster •
There are a number of strands at play in this curiously titled novel set in postwar London in the Coronation year, 1953. The well-to-do Mrs Harriet Wallis, convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, becomes the second-last woman in England to be hanged. The last woman to be executed for murder in England was Ruth Ellis, about whom Mike Newell made the film Dance with a Stranger (1985), with Miranda Richardson as Ellis.
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The Second-Last Woman in England
by Maggie Joel
Pier 9, $32.95 pb, 339 pp
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