She is talking about the morning in March 2017 she and her family heard the news that the body of her sister, the pilot Capt Dara Fitzpatrick, had been recovered from the water off the Mayo coast. The loss of her sister came around the same time as the loss of her marriage, and her hopes to be a parent. This is a sister writing this book, with a psychologist’s eye on it. “When Dara died, I couldn’t change the fact she was my sister, and that everyone knew. It was No Time for Goodbye, by Linwood Barclay, a book Fitzpatrick had given her.

Source: The Irish Times October 04, 2020 05:00 UTC