London, July 1946. A woman's body is found in a disused bomb site off the Holloway Road. In this deeply evocative crime drama, Sian Busby strips away the veneer of stoicism and respectability in post-war Britain to reveal a society riven with disillusionment and loss.
Sian Busby Livres
Siân Elizabeth Busby était une écrivaine qui explorait les aspects plus sombres de la nature humaine et de l'histoire. Son œuvre s'est souvent penchée sur des événements réels et des figures historiques, examinant la psychologie du crime et ses répercussions sociales. Avec un sens aigu du détail et une profondeur psychologique, Busby entraînait les lecteurs dans des récits captivants qui interrogeaient les frontières entre la raison et la folie. Sa capacité à faire revivre le passé et à explorer les motivations complexes des personnages en fait une voix distinctive tant dans la fiction historique que dans le non-fiction.
In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. The murder and the deep sense of shame it generated obviously affected Beth, her husband and their surviving children to an extraordinary degree, but it also resounded through the lives of her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. In Sian's case, ill-suppressed knowledge of the event manifested itself in recurring nightmares and contributed towards a prolonged bout of post-natal depression. After the birth of her second son, she decided to investigate the story once and for all and lay to rest the ghosts which have haunted the family for 80 years...