A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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I love how Flynn Berry creates and breathes life and soul into a character- in this case Claire, whose father killed her Nanny, attempted to kill her Mother then disappeared seemingly into thin air… Working on a local paper in Camden Isobel is a journalist who feels responsible for the death of her friend Jess in a road accident. Isobel has turned to drinking and drugs to help her to cope. After one binge she is walking home in the early hours of the morning when she witnesses an assault. Is she paranoid or is she being stalked and threatened – her friends and colleagues doubt her. 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. Perhaps it was for the best that Eliot’s most lovably untamed heroine, Maggie Tulliver of The Mill on the Floss, turns down two suitors and then drowns in a flood instead of joining that procession. Eliot side-stepped that fate in another way.

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Isobel appears to be a reasonable journalist but is on a downward spiral after some of her own life choices have not worked out well. She drinks and takes drugs to dull the pain of a previous mistake. 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.”Shortly before that, yes. I knew that the Dylan office was cataloging some things. They were kind enough to let me see the material for Lost on the River, that pre– Basement Tapes material, when that project was being done. I helped with the documentary they were creating and I realized that there was some excavating going on if they’d turned up that type of material. Almost thirty years ago, Claire woke to noises and went downstairs to discover the body of their nanny—Emma—covered in blood. Her mother and father—Faye and Colin—were estranged at the time.

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I knew a few facts about Bob Dylan. Very few. Clinton Heylin’s biography The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling 1942-1966 was a madcap, twisted, crazy funhouse ride of a story. I hated Dylan and he broke my heart. The cultural scene in NYC in that era is fascinating, however, and I am learning a lots about what went on in the folk world. 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. 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. I would like to thank Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for an advance copy of A Double Life, a stand-alone set in London.Lo cierto es que el problema ha sido mío, me encontré con una historia muy diferente a lo que esperaba y además este tipo de libros me cuestan mucho, en primera persona, leer sobre traumas, complejos y problemas de una sola persona, inventadas o no por ella misma da igual se me hace cuesta arriba leer sobre esto. Chronicles has all this stuff about the American Civil War and Roman and Greek authors. This was a reflection of his mindset when he wrote the book. They are things that fascinate him now, or certainly fascinated him in 2000, not things that fascinated him in 1962. 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. Laughs] That’s a cruel thing to ask, particularly given the recent output of covers albums. It might be fairer to ask me my least favorite album of Dylan songs that he wrote. Some of the covers records … Triplicate is almost unlistenable to me, and the same for Christmas in the Heart or whatever the hell it’s called. [ Laughs.]

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You have the classic story where Dylan tells [Robert] Shelton that he came to New York and lived as a rent boy for a few months. You know that’s a Rimbaudian fancy. At the time that he said it, he was obsessed with Arthur Rimbaud. It doesn’t tell us much about what he did in 1961, but it tells us a lot about 1966.

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Claire is a hardworking doctor leading a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it.