Siân Busby

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Siân Elizabeth Busby (born November 19, 1960 in London - † September 4, 2012 ) was a British writer.

life and work

Siân Busby was born in London in November 1960 as the daughter of actor Tom Busby . She attended the Creighton School in Muswell Hill . She then studied at the University of Sussex . After graduating, she went to London to work for a television station's arts program. Her best-known work appeared in 2001 with The Peony Pavilion , a two-hour summary of a 19-hour Chinese opera . She has also taught film and performing arts at Royal Holloway , a college at the University of London . Due to budget cuts in the arts program, she decided to change her professional career and become a writer.

In 2003 she published A Wonderful Little Girl , a non-fiction book about Sarah Jacob, who became known as the Welsh fasting girl in the 19th century. Busby's second non-fiction book, The Cruel Mother , was published in 2004. The semi-autobiographical work was about her great-grandmother, who drowned two of her children shortly after birth in 1919. In 2006 she published a historical book for young people about the British queen and general Boudicca . In 2007, Busby was diagnosed with lung cancer. In 2009 she published her first novel with McNaughten . She died in September 2012 as a result of her illness. At the time of her death, she was working on her second novel, A Commonplace Killing , which is set in the London borough of Holloway shortly after the end of the Second World War .

family

Busby was first married to the Dutch filmmaker Kees Ryninks , with whom she has a son (* 1985). In 1998 she married journalist and BBC News Business Editor Robert Peston , whose sister she had been friends with since her time at Creighton School . Busby and Peston already had a relationship during their studies. After Peston's sister suffered a serious traffic accident, the two met again, Busby was divorced by this point and resumed their relationship in the mid-1990s. In 1997 their son was born.

Publications

  • A Wonderful Little Girl (2003)
  • The Cruel Mother (2004)
  • Boudicca: Warrior Queen (2006)
  • McNaughten (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heartbreak for BBC Business Editor Robert Peston as his wife Sian dies aged 51 after long battle with lung cancer , Sep 5, 2012, Daily Mail
  2. ↑ Novelist Sian Busby dies aged 51 , September 5, 2012, The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Busby, Siân
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busby, Siân Elizabeth (full name); Busby, Sian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2012