A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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It is based on the real life crime case of Lord Lucan, a British royal who was accused of killing his children's nanny and attempting to kill his estranged wife. He disappeared and no one knows for sure what ever happened to him. The author of this tale uses the daughter of Lucan (here named Richard Spenser) who was 8 at the time of the murder. Though the real Lord Lucan had three children, there are only Claire and her younger brother Robbie in this tale. At the age of 34, she is still trying to find out what happened to her father and hopes to bring him to justice, though there still is some doubt as to whether he actually did the crime. Although his DNA is present at the scene of the crime and blood is found in his car 70 miles away there is no DNA underneath her fingernails indicating a close struggle. He is a Lord and has friends in high places that are willing to vouch for him and secure his alibi. During the inquest her reputation is brought into question including concerns over her mental health and her sexual proclivities. The story is told in alternative sections between the two women and the author does not reveal the tenuous link between the two of them until quite near the end. This novel is based on the disappearance of Lord Lucan. However, although it is inspired by a real-life event, the characters are fictional and events are told from the point of view of Claire, a thirty four year old doctor in London. Claire started life with another name, and another life, until her father fled the country. I enjoyed this in a squirmy sort of way because Claire is so off-the-rails OBSESSED.....but I also completely understood why and could empathize. The ending was not my fave, but overall, I found this to be a pretty decent light thriller. Not up to “Under the Harrow,” but a good sophomore effort.

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But he’s not without self-awareness: as he says – twice in a book which would have benefitted from a more shark-eyed editor – “when people meet me, they think they’re meeting the lyrics”. She said she heard noises coming from downstairs so she went to see what they were. When she reached the landing she found her estranged husband with a length of pipe outfitted with tape. Watching them has become more a habit than anything else. I don’t know what might change and finally tear an opening for me to come inside,” she tells us, finding a way into their lives as she tells herself: “I’m nothing like him.” Eliot died aged 61 in December 1880. Cross survived to write her multivolume hagiography and lobby the church to honour her. Only in 1980 was a memorial plaque for Eliot installed at Westminster Abbey between WH Auden and Dylan Thomas. It bears a quote from Scenes of Clerical Life: “The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence.” Carlisle’s book shows us that, happily, Mr and Mrs Lewes, though they never married, found both.

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It's been 26 years and Claire has never stopped looking for him. She looks for him on the streets, on trains and everywhere she goes. She spies on his friends and makes friends with their children trying to find information on him. Her brother has reacted differently and has sunk into a life of addiction. Claire is a GP working for public health. At points I was slightly annoyed - who is Isobel and how does her storyline intersect with Gabriela's? How do they both intersect with Anna (from the first novel)? How can anyone with such a supportive partner as Tom be so stupidly discontented as Anna is? And how can she treat her best friends so neglectfully too? However, the annoyance was never with the author, but always as a result of how real her characters seemed to me.

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Heylin also tries to understand what kind of man Dylan was. There is much that is unpleasant about him. He was a compulsive liar. He was wildly insecure. He was a compulsive philanderer who expected absolute loyalty and love from the woman in his life. He bullied and abused those who worked for him and tended to surround himself with flunkies. Heylin is brutally honest about Dylan the man. To be clear, in Tulsa, you have access to every second of session tape that exists in Dylan’s history? That material was revelatory since it was a missing period. There had been no documentation about that material. Audio excavations were already starting to happen. They were going through the tapes. And I had some roles to play in some of the Bootleg Series, especially the Basement Tapes one since they ended up using some of my tapes. [ Laughs] The original weren’t at hand. Was it genuine, arising from Dylan’s soul? He later said it was what was ‘in’. And when he was over it, he did his own thing, scandalously adopting the next big thing in music. He went electric. The audiences wanted the ‘old Bob Dylan,’ booing him across the world. In response, he turned up the volume. This is the most well-researched (thanks to Tulsa and lots of new work by the author) biography of Bob Dylan there is, and I've read them all. It's a pity it ends after the '66 tour, and I hope Heylin is able to convince his publishers to do two more volumes instead of just one.I read Philby's first novel earlier this year and rated it four stars but said, "Knowing there are two more related books is a game-changer for me; this could well be a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ after all, as the one thing that made me unsure about it is answered by its having to perform “set up” duties for the next two books." We don’t get to hear much from Agnes, though what she thought about marriage and adultery would have been interesting reading. Lewes could never afford to divorce her. Eliot supplanted her nonetheless, signing herself “Mother” in letters to the Lewes’s three sons. Eliot’s literary earnings, brokered by Lewes who in effect served as her literary agent, supported Agnes, even after Lewes’s death. When the police tell Claire they've found him, her carefully calibrated existence begins to fracture. She doesn't know if she's the daughter of a murderer or a wronged man, but Claire will soon learn how far she'll go to finally find the truth.

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Also, Heylin betrays a crude sexist view of women. They are lassies, blondes, buxom blondes, beauties, waifs, etc. Not a decent way to describe people. A Double Life has a number of characters, none that particularly appealed but I did not have to like them to become wrapped up in their lives. Tom was the only person I felt deserved my empathy, Gabriela is self-centred, self-serving and basically just selfish. Getting herself caught up in a dreadful situation that spirals completely out of control, Gabriela doesn’t consider the result of her actions taken until it clearly becomes too late.No he abandonado el libro por lo que malo no es y tengo que reconocer que está escrito y narrado muy bien lo que hace que me haya sido un poco más fácil su lectura. He said he was walking past the house when he witnessed the fight. He came in to aid his wife and the burglar ran away. To his credit, Heylin pulls no punches in his pursuit, but this book ends with really the most mysterious aspect of a man whose whole aura is about mystery - the near-fatal motorcycle crash that put an abrupt in to a string a revelatory music releases and served as the impetus for a New Dylan.