winner of the davitt award crime fiction novel of the year 2006in november 1974 a young english nanny named sandra rivett was murdered in londons west end her employer lord lucan was named as her attacker it was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife lord lucan disappeared the night sandra rivett died and has never been seen sincehenry kennedy lives on a mountain on the other side of the world he is not who he says he is is he a murderer or a man who can never clear his name and is he the only one with something to hideset in tasmania africa and londons belgravia the butterfly man is an absorbing novel about transformation and deception and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love