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 Libros
Siân Elizabeth Busby fue una escritora interesada en explorar los aspectos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana y la historia. Su obra se adentra con frecuencia en eventos reales y figuras históricas, examinando la psicología del crimen y sus repercusiones sociales. Con un agudo sentido del detalle y profundidad psicológica, Busby sumergía a los lectores en narrativas cautivadoras que cuestionaban los límites entre la cordura y la locura. Su habilidad para dar vida al pasado y explorar motivaciones complejas de los personajes la convierten en una voz distintiva tanto en la ficción histórica como en la no ficción.
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...