A Pin to See the Peepshow is a 1934 novel by F. Tennyson Jesse, based on the 1922 Thompson–Bywaters murder case.[3][4][5][6]
Julia Almond grows up in suburban poverty in Edwardian London. She longs for a better life, but makes an ill-advised marriage during the First World War.
Sarah Waters has praised A Pin to See the Peepshow, writing "rarely, it seemed to me, had I been plunged by a piece of fiction into an emotional world so vivid, so complete, so convincingly untidy."[7]
A Pin to See the Peepshow was adapted into a play by Jesse and H. M. Harwood in 1951. It was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and so premiered at a private venue in London: the Peter Cotes production was at the New Boltons Theatre Club.[8][9] In 1953 it showed at the Playhouse Theatre, Broadway.[10][11]
In 1973 it was adapted into a four-part TV series by the BBC, written by Elaine Morgan and starring Francesca Annis.[12][13][14]
In 2007 it was made into a short radio drama on BBC Radio 4 by Scott Cherry.[15]
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