Remembering Josh
Bali, a father's story

by Brian Deegan

‘I've not slept for seventy hours or more, walking, watching, waiting, praying for the end of this nightmare from which, at some stage, I must wake. But the reality is beginning to set in and I know only too well that, at least in this life, I shall never speak openly with my son. Never again shall I laugh with him, drink with him, discuss his future or watch him take to the field.’

So begins a father's descent into hell.

On 12 October 2002 Brian Deegan's son Joshua was killed in the terrorist explosion that ripped apart the Sari Club in Bali's Kuta Beach. Through grief and anger, this father has gone on a journey no parent should have to take. He has confronted the ghosts of his son's death, challenged the government's version of the truth and fought for the answers nobody wanted to give.

Raw and powerful, Remembering Josh cuts to the heart of love and honesty. Nobody reading this book will be left unaffected by it.


 
Pub Date: Nov 2007 | Price: S$23.50 | Paperback (B format) 248pp
Memoir | ISBN: 978-981-05-9212-7 | Territory: SG, MY, ID, HK, TH (English langauge)
     
Brian Deegan (pictured here with his son Josh) is an Adelaide magistrate. He has become the very public face for the families affected by the Bali bombings.
“Deegan knows he will never speak to or see his son again and, in his own simple way, he allows the reader to enter into that nightmare space”
–The Sydney Morning Herald

“powerful sweeping narratives”
–The Age