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In 1955, ex - nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis taken dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to loss of life. She became the last girl to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'tasks'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life hasn't been fully told. Often wilfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay. However now, through new interviews and thorough research into previously unpublished sources, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or feeling. A family portrait of the period and an evocation of 1950s team life in all its seedy glamour, A Fine Day for a Suspending pieces Ruth's gripping history securely in its historical context in order to tell the truth about both her ageless criminal offense and a abuse that was quite definitely of its time.
