'1st November 2003 started so unremarkably that I wish I had appreciated the normality of it. Because I would never, ever know peace again.'
Charlene Downes was 14 when she went missing in Blackpool's seedy underbelly. Once a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl, she had become a truant - hanging out with the wrong crowd by the takeaway shops and pier. But Charlene's mum, Karen, always knew her typical teenage daughter would come home.
Until one day she didn't.
Karen has been searching for 15 years, campaigning for the truth of what happened to her daughter. To this day, Karen and her family have no body, no convictions and no answers. Arrests were made and a murder trial took place, but no one has ever been brought to justice.
On the 15th anniversary of Charlene's disappearance, Karen shares this heartbreaking account of every parent's worst nightmare.
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Publisher
Blink PublishingeBook ISBN
9781788700993
Year
2018Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue: May 2007
- 1: The Silk Shirt
- 2: Las Vegas of the North
- 3: Breaking Boundaries
- 4: Missing
- 5: A Silent Night
- 6: The Search
- 7: Who is Martina?
- 8: Unwelcome Attention
- 9: False Hope
- 10: Christmas Spirit
- 11: Wandering the Streets
- 12: Waiting by the Window
- 13: Psychic Visions
- 14: Sweet 16
- 15: A Breakthrough
- 16: An Empty Seat
- 17: Traded for a Bag of Chips
- 18: Media Feeding Frenzy
- 19: Shock Letter
- 20: Picking Up the Pieces
- 21: Stabbed in the Back
- 22: Homecoming
- 23: Moving House
- 24: A Desperate Mother
- 25: A New Love
- 26: Memorial Turmoil
- 27: The World Listens at Last
- 28: The Footage
- Epilogue
- Pictures
- Acknowledgements