| From the Publisher A dissolute member of the British aristocracy, Lucky Lucan has been missing since he accidentally murdered his children's nanny in an attempt on his wife's life. His disappearance in the mid-seventies created a sensation and a tantalizing unsolved mystery. In this daring and sophisticated fictional version of Lucan's flight, his adversary is Beate Pappenheim, a fake Bavarian stigmatic who embezzled millions from devout followers before assuming a new identity as a celebrated psychiatrist. These two inhabitants of the further shores of morality collide memorably in Spark's brilliant new |