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A review by kingfan30
On the Edge by Richard Hammond
4.0
I wouldn’t say we were Top Gear fans in our house, but if when flicking through the channels we came across an episode and there was nothing else on, we would stop and watch, although I would say the other half was more of a fan than me and I’d probably have one eye on a book and one he on the show for the interesting bits.
This mostly covers the accident in the jet car. There is a bit of early background about Richard as a child and his daredevil ways, followed by how he got the job at Top Gear. The detail of the events leading up to the crash were pretty detailed. Once the accident had happened we swap to Mindys voice and how she got the call and the proceedings at the hospital. I felt quite disoriented with the timings once at the hospital, I couldn’t work out it hours, days or weeks were going by, but I guess that was probably how Mindy felt going through it all, and was surprised that actually it was a relatively short time all things considered. Their strength as a couple is amazing and I have had my eyes opened to how damage to the brain can affect people and how the hospitals are trained to deal with it, when it’s actually a very unseen thing that effects every single person suffering so differently.
Overall an interesting read and I feel Mindy has been a disservice by not having her name on the cover, when actually she wrote well over half of this.
This mostly covers the accident in the jet car. There is a bit of early background about Richard as a child and his daredevil ways, followed by how he got the job at Top Gear. The detail of the events leading up to the crash were pretty detailed. Once the accident had happened we swap to Mindys voice and how she got the call and the proceedings at the hospital. I felt quite disoriented with the timings once at the hospital, I couldn’t work out it hours, days or weeks were going by, but I guess that was probably how Mindy felt going through it all, and was surprised that actually it was a relatively short time all things considered. Their strength as a couple is amazing and I have had my eyes opened to how damage to the brain can affect people and how the hospitals are trained to deal with it, when it’s actually a very unseen thing that effects every single person suffering so differently.
Overall an interesting read and I feel Mindy has been a disservice by not having her name on the cover, when actually she wrote well over half of this.