From A Clear Blue Sky by Timothy Knatchbull - ISBN: 9780099543589
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IRA bomb shatters a family, one survivor’s journey to heal.

From A Clear Blue Sky

Surviving the Mountbatten bomb

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    15 August 2010

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Summary

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, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. Winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award, and nominated for the 2009-2010 PEN/JR Ackerley prize.

The powerful memoir of a Mullaghmore bombing survivor

On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099543589
ISBN-10:0099543583
Author:Timothy Knatchbull
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:15 August 2010
Weight:311g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 27mm
Series:Arrow Books
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Critics Review

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 *

About The Author

Timothy Knatchbull

Timothy Knatchbull, the youngest of seven children, 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.

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