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| Robert Peston pens preface to late wife's final book | Robert Peston pens preface to late wife's final book |
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| BBC business editor Robert Peston has described how transcribing his late wife's final book helped him cope following her death from lung cancer. | BBC business editor Robert Peston has described how transcribing his late wife's final book helped him cope following her death from lung cancer. |
| Sian Busby died aged 51 in September 2012, five years after her diagnosis. | Sian Busby died aged 51 in September 2012, five years after her diagnosis. |
| In the preface to the book, which has been printed in the Radio Times, Peston said: "Foggy-brained, the transcription was spoilt by spelling mistakes and typographical errors. All mine." | In the preface to the book, which has been printed in the Radio Times, Peston said: "Foggy-brained, the transcription was spoilt by spelling mistakes and typographical errors. All mine." |
| A Commonplace Killing will be Radio 4's Book at Bedtime next month. | A Commonplace Killing will be Radio 4's Book at Bedtime next month. |
| Peston said he picked up the novel's handwritten manuscript 11 days after his wife's death. | Peston said he picked up the novel's handwritten manuscript 11 days after his wife's death. |
| "My motive was selfish: I wanted to keep talking to her. I still do," his preface reads. | "My motive was selfish: I wanted to keep talking to her. I still do," his preface reads. |
| "The tears could not be staunched as I read, deciphered and typed. Sian's prose was as pellucid and accurate as ever. And brave. | "The tears could not be staunched as I read, deciphered and typed. Sian's prose was as pellucid and accurate as ever. And brave. |
| "Here she was, all hope lost of reprieve from the lethal cancer, reflecting on what it is like to know that death awaits on the morrow." | "Here she was, all hope lost of reprieve from the lethal cancer, reflecting on what it is like to know that death awaits on the morrow." |
| A Commonplace Killing is described by its publisher as a "gripping psychological thriller... set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London". | |
| It will be published on 2 May and will be Radio 4's Book at Bedtime from 10 to 21 June. | |
| Caroline Raphael, Radio 4's commissioning editor, said Busby had written "an engrossing story". | |
| The novel, she went on, had "three very strong, beautifully written characters" and "evokes that curious period just post war brilliantly". | |
| Cancer research | Cancer research |
| Writer and filmmaker Busby died a month after specialists said there was nothing more they could do for her. She had never been a smoker. | Writer and filmmaker Busby died a month after specialists said there was nothing more they could do for her. She had never been a smoker. |
| Writing in his BBC blog earlier this month, Peston bemoaned the underfunding of research into lung cancer. | Writing in his BBC blog earlier this month, Peston bemoaned the underfunding of research into lung cancer. |
| "Breast cancer receives just over £3,500 of research funding per death from the disease." he wrote. | "Breast cancer receives just over £3,500 of research funding per death from the disease." he wrote. |
| "Leukaemia receives over £7,000 of research funding per mortality. Lung cancer receives just over £400 per death. | "Leukaemia receives over £7,000 of research funding per mortality. Lung cancer receives just over £400 per death. |
| "There has been a perception that lung cancer sufferers have only themselves to blame, because they've smoked all their lives, and they tend to be old." | "There has been a perception that lung cancer sufferers have only themselves to blame, because they've smoked all their lives, and they tend to be old." |
| Busby wrote five books, the first two non-fiction. She also lectured in film and performing arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. | Busby wrote five books, the first two non-fiction. She also lectured in film and performing arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| She and Peston briefly dated in their early twenties and resumed their relationship 12 years later following the break up of Busby's first marriage. | She and Peston briefly dated in their early twenties and resumed their relationship 12 years later following the break up of Busby's first marriage. |
| By the time Busby was completing A Commonplace Killing, Peston writes in his preface, she was "being turned into an invalid, in almost unimaginable pain most of the time". | By the time Busby was completing A Commonplace Killing, Peston writes in his preface, she was "being turned into an invalid, in almost unimaginable pain most of the time". |
| "Very occasionally she grumbled against the palpable unfairness, but she was courageous and stoical to an extent that tested my credulity." | "Very occasionally she grumbled against the palpable unfairness, but she was courageous and stoical to an extent that tested my credulity." |