The Second Last Woman In England

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Publisher Place: Millers Point
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 345 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Set in a post-War period when a well-to-do British family's existence - both outside and inside the house - is ruled by a strict set of conventions, The Second-last Woman in England explores the depth of emotions that are always there in every family but rarely surface. And what happens when they do. In London's South Kensington, in the austere years immediately following the end of the war, Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenced to death by hanging. Leading a pampered if conventional existence, the Wallises appear to have a contented life. However, when the police turn up at the front door on the day the new nanny arrives, the first of a chain of events that will culminate in Cecil's murder is begun.

ISBN: 9781741964820