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I was 15 in 1974 and remember the murder of Sandra Rivett and the disappearance of the prime suspect, Lord Lucan. Even at the time, the focus was more on Lord Lucan than the victim and she became a minor distraction to subsequent events and eventually in the main forgotten.
Dawson in this fictionalisation of those events puts Sandra in the forefront of the story as Mandy River.
The story is told through two nannies Mandy and her friend Rosemary. Rosemary's point of view being in the first person, Mandy's in the third.
Throughout Dawson's use of language is very poetic and her descriptions give a real sense of place and times of the 1970s.
That said, using the term 'a Dick Emery walk may go over the head of some of the readership. It cases like this it will be worth a look on You Tube.

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Honestly, not the way I thought the ending would go! I enjoyed this book a lot, but it was kinda random about the bird thing...? It just didn't seem to fit.