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News 20 February 2004
DANCING IN THE SEA is the beautifully written
and moving account of Catherine Hill's horrific experience of a
hijack which left her unable to walk. When she was 25 she and her
Italian boyfriend went travelling to India. On their return their
Pan Am flight from Bombay to Germany was hijacked when it landed
in Pakistan to pick up additional passengers. Four PLO terrorists
took over the aircraft and the hostages endured about 17 hours
of terror.
Convinced that the Pakistan troops were about to try and rescue the hostages, the terrorists amassed as many people as possible into the aisles and machine-gunned them . Twenty-two people died and more than one hundred and fifty people were injured. Catherine was one of them. Her love story with Picci if anything intensified, and she began a fight that continued for years as she tried to shed a past that she no longer felt part of. Reluctantly, she claimed her new identity.
The story, which spans Italy, India, Pakistan, Britain and the US, combines terror, medical negligence and court room drama with love both between the couple and for Italy, which became her home.
The title, DANCING IN THE SEA, refers to an epiphany Catherine experienced on holiday in the Caribbean after she had settled compensation Pan Am. It was there that she and her Italian boyfriend danced together for the first time since the hijack, in the sea, and there that Catherine realised that with imagination she could discover new ways of doing things she had thought impossible due to her physical difficulties. On this holiday she picked up a pencil and began to write her story. World rights are available.
For further information please contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com
Two launch parties have just been confirmed. SCOTLAND FIRST, the controversial memoir by Scotland's former First Minster, Henry McLeish, will be launched at the new members club in Edinburgh, The Hallion, on 1st March at midday.
The
launch for ROOTS OF STONE will be held at the
Bannockburn Visitor Centre on Saturday 27th March.
There
was a full page extract from HOW TO SPOT A B*STARD BY HIS
STAR SIGN in the Sunday Times last week and on Thursday
26th February The Daily Record are running an interview with Adèle
Lang.
ATHENS
TO ATHENS is going to be reviewed in Publishers Weekly
on 23rd February. It is currently reprinting.
Determined
to get a mention of his book in the newsletter every week, Paul
Howard, appeared on the Today Programme on Radio 4 last week to
talk about cycling following the death of Italian champion Marco
Pantani. Inevitably RIDING HIGH received numerous
plugs.
And Finally...
Sharon
Atherton (Campbell) has just spent her last day in the office until
August. She is now on maternity leave and the next thing you hear
about her will be the birth of Baby Campbell which is due on March
4th. We all wish her luck - and lots of sleep! - over the coming
months.