A trip to the supermarket, a moment's inattention and Stephen's three year old daughter disappears. Superficially a story of loss, guilt, grief and the redeeming power of love, it becomes an exploration of how attitudes to child rearing have changed over time, the nature of childhood and the dangers of trying to recapture it, memory, reality, the parental role of government, the fluidity of time itself and how a lost child still lives within us all. I loved it.
(Denise Lewis - bwl 90 Autumn 2018 ) |
