One Small Step

<p><strong>On 21st November 1974 a child’s life is blown apart. What comes out of the rubble?</strong></p><p>Danny Cronin is a ten-year-old boy from a Northern Irish Catholic family living in Birmingham far away from The Troubles. Danny wants to be an astronaut when he grows up and writes science-fiction stories with himself as the hero.</p><p><em>The Troubles</em> come to Birmingham. Two bombs planted by the IRA explode in two pubs murdering twenty-one people and injuring over two hundred.</p><p>The next day a Northern Irish visitor calls at the Cronin’s house. What will his arrival mean for Danny and where was the stranger on the night of the bombings?</p>