Publisher's Synopsis
"A letter to my husband who was killed in the train crash at Potter's Bar to tell him what happened, both then and afterwards..." On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden and her husband Austen Kark boarded the 12:45 from King's Cross and settled down with their books and papers. A few minutes later the train derailed. Seven people were killed and 76 badly hurt. Nina Bawden was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Bawden uses her considerable writing skills to try and make sense of it all, and she explains how she found herself a spokesperson for the survivors of the crash, interviewed both here and abroad.
