Alf McCreary is an award-winning author and journalist who is based in Belfast. He was formerly a senior writer for the Belfast Telegraph and won several major UK and Northern Ireland Press Awards for his reporting of the Troubles. After 14 years as Head of Information at Queen’s University, he returned to full-time writing. He was Religion Correspondent of the Belfast Telegraph for 20 years and continues to write as a freelance for a wide range of publications.
‘a book with a message of hope for all. McCreary’s has been a life well and truly lived, and it is a life worth reading about, and above all, learning from.’ * The Irish Catholic * ‘This book is a tribute to the human spirit.’ * The Irish News * ‘a ray of light from an often dark landscape...this book is [Alf McCreary’s] best in a range of works spanning over 40 years’ * The Belfast Newsletter * ‘I strongly recommend anyone with an interest in Ireland — and that is surely everyone in Britain — to read this book. It can be read at a sitting. I hope as many as possible will do so. * Methodist Recorder *