Herald review …
A review - a fantastically kind review - for "Lord Lucan: My Story" in the Glasgow Herald.
Alastair Mabbott, I owe you one very large drink …
"A modest book from a small publisher, this fictionalised memoir of the missing Seventh Earl of Lucan punches well above its weight.
"With the runaway peer’s associates John Aspinall and James Goldsmith long dead, journalist William Coles is free to spin whatever tale he likes about Lucan’s disappearance without provoking a flurry of libel writs.
"He has set about his task with a mischievous glee which, combined with a pace that never slackens, is highly appealing."In this account of the events following the murder of Lucan’s children’s nanny, Aspinall is the loyal friend who finds the peer’s newly acquired fugitive status exciting and hides him in a luxury bunker beneath his mansion.
"Goldsmith, meanwhile, is depicted as a loathsome, Blofeld-like cad, dedicated to making Lucan’s life a misery as revenge for a schoolboy slight.
"It’s all completely fictitious, of course, but Coles is so engrossing and persuasive that you do sometimes have to keep reminding yourself that these aren’t the real Lucan’s words."
Alastair Mabbott