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Siân Busby


Born
in The United Kingdom
November 19, 1960

Died
September 04, 2012

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Fiction


Siân Elizabeth Busby (19 November 1960 – 4 September 2012) 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. Her first two books were non-fiction. A Wonderful Little Girl (2003) concerned a Welsh child whose apparent ability to survive without nourishment led doctors to term the condition anorexia while The Cruel Mother (2004) was a semi-autobiographical account of child murder by one of Busby's ancestors. McNaughten (2009) concerned a mentally unstable 19th century woodcutter who was accused of attempting to assassinate Sir Robert Pe ...more

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Average rating: 3.38 · 1,328 ratings · 164 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
A Commonplace Killing
3.35 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions
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The Cruel Mother: A Memoir
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A Wonderful Little Girl: St...
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“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
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