A powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend
The youngest of seven children, Timothy Knatchbull read Social and Political Science at Cambridge. After ten years as a filmmaker, mostly at BBC television, he studied at Harvard's Kennedy School before spending two years in Washington DC with the Discovery Channel. He now runs a London media business and is married with five children.
From a Clear Blue Sky is a minute by minute story of what happened
that day, and what happened afterwards. It is a proper four-hanky
bawler, and the exactitude of the story is what makes it so moving
... He provides a convincing account of the extent to which he has
been able to accept, forgive and move on. His narrative power is
such that the reader can't always share his equanimity. It is a
book that is as saddening as it is sad - but much more angering
than it is angry
*Daily Mail*
This is an extremely moving book. Beyond providing a phenomenally
detailed evocation of his own family's trauma, Knatchbull has lots
of wise things to say about how we survive horrors - of all kinds -
in our lives. He writes with great tenderness and an admirable lack
of sentimentality
*Zoe Heller*
Affecting and intimate
*Daily Mail*
Testament to a remarkable, benevolent soul ... With this public
love letter he has found a way to say goodbye
*The Sunday Times*
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