Our Billie

'An astonishing work' - Joanne Harris

Every parent's worst nightmare became a reality for Ian Clayton. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine-year-old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. In a remarkably frank and vivid way Clayton describes what happened on that spring day, his desperate attempts to save his two children, and then what it felt like two years later to come face to face with the men who hired out the canoe.

But Our Billie is not a story of bitterness and recrimination. Instead it's the story of how a family attempts to come to terms with something which makes no sense at all. Through his memories of Billie and his wonderfully affectionate portrait of the small town in Yorkshire where the family has lived for generations, he weaves a story of loss and remembering, of gratitude and forgiveness.

Title - Our Billie

Edition -

Author - Ian Clayton

ISBN 13 - 9780141042336

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 01/04/2010

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 1 x 1 x 1mm

Weight - 145 g

Languages - English