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ON NOVEMBER 7 it will be 31 years since the murder of Sandra Rivett, nanny to the children of Lord Lucan in Britain.
The grisly story of love gone wrong in the upper echelons of Belgravia has fuelled worldwide speculation ever since, exacerbated by Lucan's disappearance the next day and by the belief that Rivett's murder was a mistake and the intended victim was Lucan's estranged wife.
Heather Rose's The Butterfly Man is a creative account of the aftermath transposed to Tasmania's Mt Wellington.
The year is 1995 and Henry Kennedy, a man in his late 50s, lives in a stunning glass house high on the mountain with Lili, his Vietnamese partner. Their...