Buy this book on-line SOUNES, HOWARD: : THIS WOMAN: MYRA HINDLEY'S PRISON LOVE AFFAIR AND ESCAPE ATTEMPTLONDON.SEVEN DIALS/an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group ltd.,2022. ISBN 9781841885094.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 .] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,matt,subject's montage'd b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,embossed,glossy red-lettered part-title and capitalised,flat printed,red-lettered sub-title and capitalised, glossy,black-lettered author's name to front of dw/dj.Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured, lettered but flat printed titLe,sub-title and author name as the front's and publisher’s red illustrated colophon and capitalised,black-lettered name to foot of same,b/w facsimile photographs of HM Prison Holloway and subject's portrait photographs.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean without blemish/foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean/unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked red gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-331pp [paginated] includes 28 chapters and a Postscript; 16pp historical and contemporary b/w and colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp118/19 and pp214/15 respectively,Acknowledgements,Notes,a Bibliography,an Illustrations list and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a Contents list/table,double-page b/w drawing of HMP Holloway,London c.1970s at time of attempted escape and to the rear,10pp blanks.
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In 1973, Myra Hindley,the most notorious woman in Britain,is serving a life sentence for the moors murders - a case that shocked the world. Behind bars she has fallen in love.
When Hindley is refused parole she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and former nun to help her break out of London's grim Holloway prison. The women plan to run away together to Brazil.
Twenty years after Hindley's death,this extraordinary true story is brought to life in vivid new detail by Howard Sounes, author of the true crime classic Fred & Rose, drawing on unseen prison files and new interviews with former Holloway inmates, prison officers and detectives.It is a tale of infatuation and manipulation, crime and punishment.
Despite her part in the appalling murders of five children and teenagers, Myra Hindley is revealed as a highly complex woman of intelligence and charm, which she used to get what she wanted. Or was she, as her supporters claimed, a misunderstood person who regretted her past and only attempted to escape out of desperation? Revealing the 'most wicked woman in Britain' in new light,'This Woman' is an atmospheric prison story and a love story that will make readers think again about the woman behind the moors murders.
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