Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m
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A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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Your children are only ever on loan to you. Simone glimpsed this phrase last month on a billboard in London advertising a film and then spent the rest of the day arguing in her head with it. Of course that isn’t correct, she had thought. If you do it right, your children are yours forever.

But it has plagued her in the way things sometimes do when they contain an uncomfortable truth.

And so Simone is thinking of that billboard once again now as she sits cross-legged on a motionless baggage carousel in Del Rio Airport, Texas, waiting to go and meet her daughter, Lucy, who’s spent the summer here.