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Sian Busby

    Siân Elizabeth Busby war eine Schriftstellerin, die sich der Erforschung der dunkleren Aspekte der menschlichen Natur und Geschichte widmete. Ihre Werke befassten sich häufig mit realen Ereignissen und historischen Persönlichkeiten, um die Psychologie des Verbrechens und seine gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen zu untersuchen. Mit einem scharfen Blick für Details und psychologische Tiefe zog Busby die Leser in fesselnde Erzählungen, die die Grenzen zwischen Vernunft und Wahnsinn in Frage stellten. Ihre Fähigkeit, die Vergangenheit lebendig werden zu lassen und komplexe Charakter­motivationen zu erforschen, macht sie zu einer herausragenden Stimme in der historischen Belletristik und im Non-Fiction-Bereich.

    The Cruel Mother
    A Commonplace Killing
    • 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.

      A Commonplace Killing
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    • The Cruel Mother

      A Family Ghost Laid to Rest

      • 304 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      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...

      The Cruel Mother