When my father died in 2003 I decided to write a biography for our family, but I became more and more involved in researching the Voyager tragedy in 1964 because my father was the Parliamentarian who pushed for the second royal commission into the disaster in 1967. After I finished this book I wrote the filmscript on the Voyager disaster and then decided to write Abide With Me with aims to do two things, change history and absolve both crews from blame.