Readers’ Letters

Personal and intimate From a Clear Blue Sky is such a personal and intimate exploration of Timothy Knatchbull’s experiences that I find it difficult to adequately convey how moving I found the book. So I will just say congratulations and thank you for writing it. Jill Hugessen 7 May 2013   Extraordinary and beautiful I [...]


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  Best book to read this year Most compelling story – a MUST read. Such a brave and honest account of a family who was thrown into grief. Gill   Beautifully written I have just finished reading this book and had to write. Timothy’s account of that dreadful day in August 1979, and the aftermath, [...]


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Press Reviews of 'From a Clear Blue Sky'

Press Reviews of ‘From a Clear Blue Sky’

27.08.09 Culture Northern Ireland 30.08.09 Sunday Times Review 18.09.09 Daily Mail 07.10.09 The Friend 12.10.09 Daily Telegraph 14.12.09 The House Magazine 10.02.10 ‘The Witness’ South Africa 27.02.10 Times of India March 2010 Tamba BSG 06.08.10 Daily Mail 09.08.10 Irish Independent Summer 2010 The Compassionate Friends’ Newsletter 16.09.10 Radio Scilly 05.12.10 Sunday Express 04.01.11 Professor Roy [...]


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  • 'It is one of the most intensely moving stories I have ever read, and I was gripped from the first page.'

    Barbara Taylor Bradford


    'Testament to a remarkable, benevolent soul...With this public love letter he has found a way to say goodbye’. Sunday Times


    ‘It is one of the most penetrating and humane books to have emerged from the Troubles.’

    Irish Independent


    'This amazingly clear-headed and mature book...Intelligent, honest, tender and so moving that it should come with a warning to read this in private because you're going to be in a tear-stained mess.’ Daily Mail


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