The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky

Part biography, part detective story: a heartwrenching memoir of two brothers, for fans of Dave Eggers and Justine Picardie. Ken Dornstein always looked up to his older brother David. David was handsome, popular and successful with women. He was talented, and had dreams of writing the Great American Novel dreams his little brother never doubted would come true. David died in the Lockerbie bombing of 1988, aged 25. This memoir begins as the story of Ken’s investigation into David’s death. But as his obsessive enquiries go on, it becomes the story of David’s life, what he meant to Ken and who he really was. As it moves towards its devastating finale, Ken’s account becomes as page-turning as a thriller, and raises the question: how well do we know the people we love?