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Busby was diagnosed as suffering from lung cancer in 2007. [4] She had finished her last book, a novel A Commonplace Killing , shortly before she died from the disease in 2012. [ 5 ] The book, describing the investigation into the murder of a woman in post-war London, was published in May 2013 and featured as BBC Radio 4 's Book at Bedtime in June of the same year.
May 24, 2013 · Busby's posthumously published novel is a murder mystery set in north London just after the war. It is a vividly realised portrait of postwar life, with hints of the author's own imminent death
May 7, 2016 · Saturday 07 May 2016 16:07 BST. Comments. ... Robert Peston has described coming to terms with losing his wife of 14 years, the novelist Sian Busby, after her death from lung cancer aged 51.
May 26, 2009 · Sian Busby, above, has known her husband Robert Peston since she was fifteen Credit: Photo: ANDREW CROWLEY . Sian Busby's first novel, McNaughten, is almost uncannily well-timed. It describes a ...
May 8, 2016 · He had been at the BBC for 10 years, but after his wife, Siân, died of cancer in 2012 he needed stability and to be able to devote as much time as possible to his 15-year-old son. However, at the ...
Apr 30, 2013 · Peston said he slept on the floor of Busby's hospice room during her final days. "She was never once hysterical; she was dignified and calm throughout the worsening nightmare," he said.
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A word of warning, the foreword written by Sian Busby’s husband, Robert Peston, is incredibly touching and had me in tears. A Commonplace Killing is a deceptively hard-hitting book. No scenes of gruesome violence are written on the page it is worse than that; Sian Busby writes eloquently about the time when the old rules were swiped aside leaving a grubby stain on the country.
