The mystery of the best-selling novelist who died a recluse in a cottage on Ireland’s west coast

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Mrs Walsh found her Iranian-born tenant lying face down on the bedroom floor, wearing only a woollen cardigan. She had been dead for about a week and around her lay the detritus of her increasingly marginal existence in the previous weeks and months: dozens of empty mineral water bottles and the wrappers of the large chocolate bars that had become her chief source of sustenance.

The mystery of Marsha Mehran - the best-selling young novelist who died a recluse in a rubbish-strewn cottage on Ireland s west coast - Features - Books - The Independent

 

[Mr. H.]

Sad story.

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