One summer evening in 2012, during a moment of great national pride and celebration in Britain, new mum Siobhan Regan inexplicably goes missing, leaving her partner Charlie bewildered, heartbroken and bereft. Where has she gone, and why? What terrible fate might have befallen her? When, astonished, he eventually finds the barely-believable answer to the riddle, he is caught on the horns of a terrible and impossible moral dilemma.
This compelling, emotional, sometimes harrowing but essentially feel-good new novel by John Needham – part intriguing mystery, part love story – whilst completely made up, is based on an actual psychological phenomenon, a bizarre mental disorder, proving once again that truth, sometimes, can be stranger than fiction.
‘. . . really interesting and emotionally challenging story which will grip from the very first page.’ Columbia Review of Books & Film