A powerful and powerfully moving account of a woman's search for the truth about a child's disappearance and her own father's involvement in that disappearance.
Sandra Brown was eight when Moira Anderson, a twelve-year-old neighbour, disappeared from the small town of Coatbridge near Glasgow. She has never been seen since.
Twenty-seven years later, at a family funeral, Sandra's father, long-estranged from his family, confesses to her that he was somehow involved in the girl's disappearance. Appalled and fascinated by this strange half confession, Sandra begins to delve into the case and in doing so discovers that her father was a known molester of children, whose activities were known not just to everyone in Coatbridge but also to the police.
Child abuse is one of the most crucial issues of our times and this extraordinary story goes to the very heart of the debate.
