Publisher's Synopsis
On 14 June 2017, the world awoke to pictures of a giant orange flame over 200 feet tall - above it a black plume of smoke reaching high into the morning sky. Grenfell Tower had gone up like a Roman candle leaving a blackened stump glowering over West London. No prolific author Nigel Cawthorne and Bafta-award-winning documentary film-maker David Monaghan piece together the stories of the 255 survivors and the estimated 80 - a figure, shockingly, still unconfirmed - who perished in the inferno. Was this a disaster waiting to happen? Published to mark the first anniversary of the catastrophe, the book also examines the role of national and local government in the catastrophe, as well as the part played by advice issued by the fire services.
