Half the World Away
Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds casual work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Joanna and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, follow her adventures on her blog. When Joanna and Tom hear nothing for weeks they become increasingly concerned, travelling out to Chengdu in search of their daughter. Landing in a totally unfamiliar country, Joanna and Tom are forced to turn detective, following in their daughter's footsteps. When a woman's remains are discovered close to the last sightings of Lori, it appears they have found their daughter. But nothing could prepare them for the shocks still in store…
Lorelei is leaving. Tom, my ex, and I drive her to the airport. A bright, blustery September afternoon. The sky a high dome of blue, chalk-marked with jet trails, the trees along the roadside heavy with leaves.
A cold, jittery feeling in my stomach, my jaw tense.
‘You’ve got your passport?’ I turn round from the front seat, an excuse as much as anything to see her, to see more of her.
‘Yes.’
‘Money?’ Tom says.
‘Da-ad.’
‘Well, it has been known, babe,’ he says.
‘Once,’ she huffs, ‘once I forgot things.’
‘Everything,’ he says. ‘Not so hot on the house keys either, as I recall.’
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