FAYE O'HARA WAS staring up at an ebony sky. Every few seconds the black vastness was punctuated by a flashing electric blue light. Thirty minutes earlier Faye, full of attitude and the invincibility of a 15-year-old, had climbed into a car with a teenage driver. As it sped up and the speedometer edged close to 80mph there was an explosive thud of metal hitting metal and glass shattering. The door next to Faye sheared off and she was catapulted from the disintegrating vehicle. She may not have been knocked unconscious, but this rapid exit and subsequent slide along the hard, rough ground severed every nerve as well as the artery in her right arm, broke her collarbone, shattered numerous ribs, her pelvis and her femur and severed her spinal cord at T6/T7. She was also haemorrhaging blood.
Faye didn't know any of this as she stared
