About The Book. Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. On a damp July morning in , two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few Released on: Septem. Quotes by Siân Busby “To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I’m afraid that nothing surprises me any more.” ― Siân Busby, A Commonplace Killing/5. · Overview. Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. On a damp July morning in , two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged Brand: Atria Books/Marble Arch Press.
Sian Busby has died aged Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images. The novelist Sian Busby has died at the age of 51, five years after she was first diagnosed with lung cancer. Siân Busby. Siân Elizabeth Busby (19 November - 4 September ) was a British writer. The daughter of the Canadian actor Tom Busby and Wendy Russell, she was educated at Creighton School in Muswell Hill and read English at Sussex University. Originally embarking in a career in arts television, she later switched to writing. A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby starting at $ A Commonplace Killing has 6 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.
Siân Busby was married to the BBC's economic editor, Robert Peston. It was he who found and transcribed the final pages of her manuscript. After her passing, he added a moving foreword to the completed novel. A Commonplace Killing is exactly that - a grubby, tawdry sex murder committed in immediate post-war London. About The Book. Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. On a damp July morning in , two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. London, July 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.
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