A Clear Blue Sky
๐ Fiction
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2017
๐ HarperCollins Publishers
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From a Clear Blue Sky
โ Scribed by Knatchbull, Timothy
- Publisher
- Random House;Cornerstone Digital
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. It was a trip that would cost four lives - and change his own for ever.
The IRA bomb that exploded in their boat killed Knatchbull's grandfather Lord Mountbatten, his grandmother Lady Brabourne, his twin brother Nicholas, and local teenager Paul Maxwell. In telling this story for the first time, Knatchbull is not only revisiting the terrible events he and his family lived through, but also writing an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy.
For thirty years, Knatchbull has lived with the echoes of that day: the death of the twin from whom he had been inseparable; the loss of his adored grandparents, whose funerals along with his twin's he and his parents were too injured to attend; the recovery from physical wounds; and the emotional legacy that proved harder to...
โฆ Subjects
Autobiography: historical, political & military;British & Irish history;HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--General;POLITICAL SCIENCE--Terrorism;Terrorism, armed struggle;HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- General;POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism
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