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Zusatztext This novel is based closely on the events surrounding the disappearance of Lord Lucan following the murder of the family nanny, Sandra Rivett, in 1974. Focusing as much on the nanny's life as that of her aristocratic employer, it's strangely dreamlike, sometimes surreal and always enthralling . Informationen zum Autor Jill Dawson 's novels include Fred & Edie , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, Watch Me Disappear , which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and The Crime Writer , winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year. An award-winning poet, she has also edited several poetry and short story anthologies. She has held many fellowships, including the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. In 2008 she founded a mentoring scheme for new writers, Gold Dust, and in 2020 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Klappentext A suspenseful novel inspired by the unsolved case of Lord Lucan and the nanny he is believed to have murdered, focusing on the nanny's experience. Dawson has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. A hypnotic and thought-provoking novel inspired by the sensational Lord Lucan case, by the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Fred & Edie . Zusammenfassung A hypnotic and thought-provoking novel inspired by the sensational Lord Lucan case, by the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Fred & Edie.
