Sgeir
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Nick Ward, author of "Left for Dead" was interviewed on Libby Purves' Midweek programme today, Radio 4 - listen again...
Interview with Fastnet author Nick Ward
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aknight
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Thanks! I missed that and would have been sorry not to have had the chance to listen to it.
I read Ward's book "Left for Dead" last week and strongly recommend it. I always thought the opening section of 'Fastnet Force Ten', which concentrates on Grimalkin and the events befalling Ward before widening out to the other people caught in the storm, was the most affecting to me personally.
Reading the same story from Ward's own perspective is fascinating, because of course, being unconscious at some of the critical moments, he didn't experience the same events as those who abandoned ship and left him and Gerry Winks behind. He had only flashes of awareness, which he describes vividly in the book.
One senses that he is trying to be charitable towards his erstwhile crewmates - besides avoiding litigation for libel of course - but at the same time he still struggles to understand how they could have abandoned him and how to reconcile his feelings about that. As he well might.
I read Ward's book "Left for Dead" last week and strongly recommend it. I always thought the opening section of 'Fastnet Force Ten', which concentrates on Grimalkin and the events befalling Ward before widening out to the other people caught in the storm, was the most affecting to me personally.
Reading the same story from Ward's own perspective is fascinating, because of course, being unconscious at some of the critical moments, he didn't experience the same events as those who abandoned ship and left him and Gerry Winks behind. He had only flashes of awareness, which he describes vividly in the book.
One senses that he is trying to be charitable towards his erstwhile crewmates - besides avoiding litigation for libel of course - but at the same time he still struggles to understand how they could have abandoned him and how to reconcile his feelings about that. As he well might.
