Siân Busby

A Wonderful Little Girl (2003) concerned a Welsh child whose apparent ability to survive without nourishment led doctors to term the condition anorexia, while The Cruel Mother (2004) was a semi-autobiographical account of child murder by one of Busby's ancestors.

[2] McNaughten (2009) concerned a mentally unstable 19th-century woodcutter who was accused of attempting to assassinate Sir Robert Peel.

Daniel M'Naghten, a genuine historical figure, had instead shot and fatally injured Edward Drummond, Peel's private secretary.

[3] Significant in case law, the M'Naghten rules resulted from his acquittal at the subsequent trial.on the grounds of insanity.

[6] In the meantime, Busby had married and been divorced from the Dutch film maker Kees Ryninks, with whom she also had a son.