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Автор: Barry Hotson
Год: 2014
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 250
ISBN: 9781909776043
An explosion at a chemical plant and sixteen men lose their lives. Eight year old Michael will never see his father again. Inspired by true events, this is one man's deeply moving journey into the past as he uncovers the truth about his father's death and his mother's life. Inspired by and based on the 1974 UK Flixborough Disaster, Britain's largest peacetime explosion until Buncefield in 2005. Told from both an adult and child's eye view, it is a deeply moving account of how the death of a parent can alter the course of a child's life. Whilst it is not an anti-corporate story, it shows how the fragmentation of corporations and outsourcing can lead to the loss of communication, common purpose and sense of responsibility with potentially devastating consequences. It's Marlene Paine's funeral, a day which has finally released her from thirty years of widowhood. Her son Michael, married and middle-aged, counts himself a happy man, but at the ceremony the unexpected...
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