Bad Things Happen
Tim Buckley
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In October 2007, while on a cycling training weekend in the French Alps, I crashed my bike on Alpe d’Huez. My head challenged the road to a duel which the road duly won, and I spent the rest of the year recovering and trying to make sense of what had happened.
It was my bad thing, and I found myself lost and isolated in the world that I had, for 10 years, called home. This book was my path to redemption, my way of putting my life back together. It is also my soap-box from where to seek answers to the questions that vex, confuse and intrigue me and the canvass upon which I have endeavoured to paint my picture of the world.
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Aengus lived in a vibrant new city, among charming new friends, with a thriving career. There was never any hint that, just a scratch below the surface of his world, lurked desolate emptiness. When his wife, Caitríona, is killed in a traffic accident, the thin veneer is suddenly and irredeemably ripped away. And so he seeks out the only person who can give him back a little piece of Caitríona – the daughter they gave up for adoption some twenty years before.
His search takes him home to Ireland and to the father with whom he has endured a fractured relationship, to old friends that he has carelessly left behind. He discovers a sense of belonging with people who will always be his own. In places long-forgotten. In dreams he once coveted but never dared to grasp. Bad Things Happen is a dark tale of one man’s search for the light. Because when bad things happen, there can be no redemption without belonging.
About the Author
Tim Buckley has spent more than ten years as a marketing and communications professional in the telecommunications and technology industries. He has worked closely with the press and with market analysts and his work has been published in business journals and trade publications.
Tim currently works as a freelance communications consultant. A fully qualified Chartered Accountant, he holds an Honours degree from University College, Dublin. Bad Things Happen is his first novel. Tim has personal experience of many of the themes explored in Bad Things Happen - the relentless pressure of the modern urban corporate world, the rootless transience of a life on the move. He has experience, too, of bad things happening in an adopted homeland. A cycling accident while training in the French Alps in 2007 almost cost him his life – and forced him to reassess his life’s priorities.
Tim is a keen long-distance runner and triathlete, with ten marathons and five Ironman triathlons to his name. An Irish national, he has spent much of his life living overseas, including spells in South Africa, the UK, and France. He currently lives with his wife in Switzerland.
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Paperback
368 pages pages
Author
Tim Buckley
Publisher
Matador
Publication date
1st March 2010
ISBN
9781848762909
