Gone: A Mother's 14-Year Search for Her Abducted Daughter
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Rating | : | 4.19 (914 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1905379617 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-09-04 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
'In total confusion I clutched the lambskin to my chest. It was still perfumed with Tanya's baby scent. Surely he would not have taken her without her security blanket?'In 1977, Margaret Wilcox faces every mother's worst nightmare - the abduction of her child. The kidnapper is not a stranger but the child's father, Hadi.Gone tells the dramatic story of Margaret's long search to be reunited with Tanya, a journey that takes her all over the world and into the darkest corners of the human psyche. At every turn she is thwarted by uncaring bureaucracies and clumsy legal systems that insist when it comes to child custody, possession is nine-tenths of the law.Inspiring, unforgettable and profoundly
"Unsure how I feel about this book" according to Jeannie Howard. Maybe I should of given this another star, it was a good read and moved along nicelybutI've read enough of this type of book- woman marries Middle Eastern man- to understand how this could happen. Her knowing what and how her husband was and what he was capable of, she should NEVER have left her daughter alone with him, not for one second!! She does agonize over this fateful decision more than once in the book and my heart goes out to her for that. I can forgive her that. But when she had the opportunity, more than once, to steal her daughter back, does she do it? No! Instead of listening to her heart,she asks the ad