''Some Other Rainbow'' is a joint memoir written by John McCarthy and

Jill Morrell Jill Morrell (born 1957) is a British charity worker and former journalist. She came to the public eye following the kidnapping of her boyfriend John McCarthy, in 1986. Morrell was a tireless and effective campaigner for McCarthy's release fr ...

and first published by

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in 1993. It deals in separate chapters with the individual and parallel experiences of McCarthy and Morrell, during McCarthy's captivity in the

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

, which lasted from 17 April 1986 until 8 August 1991. While McCarthy was held by Hezbollah, along with Irish hostage Brian Keenan, he was unaware of the campaign being run by Morrell to keep his name in the public eye and help secure his release; only after his release did he discover that she had formed the "Friends of John McCarthy". ''Some Other Rainbow'' is often compared with Keenan's memoir, ''An Evil Cradling'', published a year earlier. The book topped the ''Independent on Sundays bestseller list for autobiography and made the couple enough to live on for a time. The couple split up in 1995. McCarthy later wrote another memoir, ''A Ghost Upon Your Path'' (2002), dealing with later experiences.

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