Myra Hindley

The new poems at the end of this volume evidence the power and versatility that FA had reached by now. They include poems about death, dreams, erotic feeling, tiny incidents in her own and others'...

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

Her starting point was writing a Sunday Telegraph report of the trial at Chester of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley .

The protagonist, Stephen, is a furniture restorer by trade, but he also writes newspaper columns featuring the moor, which he thinks about incessantly and explores in his free time. Stephen believes that his mother, who...