Siobhan McHale lost her sister Kathleen in a terrorist bomb while her daughter Gemma died tragically in a car accident.
In 1972, their idyllic world was shattered when Siobhan’s sister Kathleen was killed by a terrorist bomb while posting her wedding invitations.
"Gemma was a bright, bubbly girl and stunningly beautiful, not just on the outside. She had so much love to give and she got so much love in return. That fateful knock on the door came 40 years after Siobhan heard a car bomb explode underneath her bedroom window as she lay in her bed on the night of December 14, 1972, which claimed the life of her dear sister Kathleen.
"It was like keeping a link with Gemma and a few years later I began to wonder if I could do anything with these letters. That's when I tried writing the book. I didn't want the book to just be letters to heaven but something more so I just went back to the beginning.
"At that point I had just got to the part when we received the knock on the door but after that inquest I couldn't look at the book," she said. "Soon after that we were in lockdown so I worked night and day on the writing. I had a pen and paper beside the bed and I would waken quite often during the night so I'd jot down any thought that came into my head in case I had forgotten it in the morning."
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