Felicity Prazak

A fight for justice.

This book was recommended by a couple of friends who had met the author whilst she was teaching art at a school in Dubai. I personally have not met her and so it's possibly easier for me to be objective about the book. One of our group put it in a nut-shell when she commented that this would have been so much better if it had been written by someone else on her behalf. The author is just too personally involved to be subjective and the end result is a bit of a list of complaints. While I sympathise totally with Ms Prazak's predicament, as a reader, this book leaves something to be desired.

Felicity was the mother of two very young children when she received the awful news that her husband had been killed in an air accident on his way home to visit his family for Christmas, 1992. The struggle for information was unbelievably blocked at every turn; she received little support from the British Government, her husband's company, nor the Libyan authorities. While the victims of the Lockerbie bombing were awarded 10 million dollars compensation, Felicity got just $60,000.
Her persistent investigations finally unearthed the fact that the plane had been shot down by a Libyan Mig fighter - it was intended to look like a mid-air accident in order to highlight the human effect of the sanctions against Libya. Further research eventually led her to her husband's burial place - a mass, unmarked grave in the Libyan desert.

Felicity has fought for over twenty years to raise her two children and get answers to all her questions. Since the Arab Spring, more evidence has become available but it is possible that she will never know the full truth.
5 stars for the author's persistence, but unfortunately, only 3.5 stars for the book itself.… (lisätietoja)