The Independent - London, May 12th, 2002
Readers of Carrie's War, the best-known work by the acclaimed children's author Nina Bawden, are told that she likes travelling to "quite dangerous places". But the journey that proved the most dangerous of all began not in some far-flung corner of the globe but at King's Cross station at 12.45pm on Friday.
It is thought that Ms Bawden, 77, and her husband Austen Kark, 75, a former head of the BBC World Service, were on their way to visit her son Robert, a GP, in Norfolk. But 10 minutes into the journey the train derailed at Potters Bar. Mr Kark was killed and Ms Bawden badly injured. She is ...
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