In an instant, former Concorde pilot Alan Atkinson lost his wife and his three children.
As night fell in the Everglades another driver, drink in hand, reversed directly in front of the family’s rental car, sending it into the deep murky waters of a wetland canal. Alan survived; his wife, his 11-year-old son and his twin eight-year-old daughters didn’t. 42 years later, Alan, who lives in East Preston, has now found the peace to write the story of their awful deaths, of his fight for justice and of the way he has managed to survive the decades since.
“The book had to be written,” says Alan. The Innocent and the Beautiful has been published The Conrad Press.
As night fell in the Everglades another driver, drink in hand, reversed directly in front of the family’s rental car, sending it into the deep murky waters of a wetland canal. Alan survived; his wife, his 11-year-old son and his twin eight-year-old daughters didn’t. 42 years later, Alan, who lives in East Preston, has now found the peace to write the story of their awful deaths, of his fight for justice and of the way he has managed to survive the decades since.
“The book had to be written,” says Alan. The Innocent and the Beautiful has been published The Conrad Press.
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