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A Powerful Account of Survival and One Woman's Inspirational Journey to Recovery and a New Life
Rodale International Ltd
April 2007
On Sale: April 6, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 1405099895
EAN: 9781405099899
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Gill Hicks was on her way to work on a Piccadilly Line tube
train
on July 7, 2005, when a terrorist bomb exploded in the
carriage in
which she was traveling. Despite the fact she had been
standing only
feet away from the bomber, she survived the blast, but her
injuries
were so severe both her legs were amputated, and she was not
expected
to live.
The last person to be pulled alive from the carriage, in
which 26
people lost their lives, Gill suffered cardiac arrest three
times on
the way to the hospital and doctors feared she might suffer
brain
damage due to lack of oxygen. She was admitted to St
Thomas's hospital,
identified only as "One Unknown, estimated female, 1960" on her
hospital wristband.
In this powerful and moving account Gill recalls the events
of July
7th, and her life since, from facing the very real prospect
that she
might die alone in the carriage and her subsequent fight to
live, to
coming to terms with losing her legs and learning to walk again.
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