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1996: On an ordinary Saturday morning, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries.
Nightingale Point
What you need to know before your trail
Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after.
Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years.
Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he’s falling in with the wrong crowd, without Malachi to keep him straight.
Elvis is trying hard to remember to the instructions his care worker gave him, but sometimes he gets confused and forgets things.
Pamela wants to run back to Malachi but her overprotective father has locked her in and there’s no way out.
It’s a day like any other, until something extraordinary happens. When the sun sets, Nightingale Point is irrevocably changed and somehow, through the darkness, the residents must find a way back to lightness, and back to each other.
Travel Guide
Nightingale Point Tower
The tower in the novel, Nightingale Point is fictional yet it and the people who live there have many real life stories to tell.
The disasters which this story touch upon and form the heart and soul of the narrative are the Bijlmer disaster of 1992 and the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Bijlmer disaster
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the state- owned Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood
Grenfell Tower
On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London just before 1:00 am. More than 70 people died and many more were injured.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Nightingale Point
Destination: Amsterdam, London Author/guide: Luan Goldie Departure Time: 1996
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