Some Other Rainbow

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On 17 April 1986 John Mc Carthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything & everybody he knew & loved from family friends & perhaps above all from Jill Morrell the girl he was going to marry. For five years John Mc Carthy had to endure the deprivation
- both physical & psychological
- of captivity; the filth & squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation & repeated self-examination; & the pain of ignorance of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive. For Jill Morrell the five years of Johns captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock & disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken & that her life had changed irrevocably that all their plans had been shattered. But Jill refused to give up hope. For five years she & a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John & all British hostages in the Middle East until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John Mc Carthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. A day when they could begin again. This is their story a remarkable account of courage endurance hope & love.