On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

I'm Alex von Tundselman.

This is The Lucan Obsession.

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Hello. Today to introduce books they love, I'm joined by two award-winning authors.

Samantha Harvey's five novels include the Western Wind and most recently Orbital,

and she's also published a memoir, The Shapeless Unease, A Year of Not Sleeping.

Darren Anderson's, the author of the non-fiction imaginary cities,

the memoir inventory, and the forthcoming in the land of my enemy. So, Samantha Harvey, would you

start by telling us what your suggestion is for a good read? Yeah, mine is Quartet in Autumn by

Barbara Pym. And I've chosen this book because I love it for many reasons. I only read it for the first time about five or six years ago and I was new to Barbara Pim at that point. I've read others of hers since then and don't actually particularly like her other books, but this one just

hits a, hits a mark, I think. It's about four people who work together in an office in London

in the 1970s. It's written in the 70s and set in the 70s. And they have very little in common, except that they all work in the same office doing a

sort of nondescript job that we never find out about.

They're all in their 60s during the course of the novel two, the two women, Leti and Marcia

retire.

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