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Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m

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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CHAPTER 12

Simone drives and drives, knowing she has to cross the border but with no idea how.

She takes each problem course by course, like elements of a large tasting-menu meal she has to cook and assemble on schedule.

She has the benefit of stress hormones and maternal instinct, which fire her like a rocket up the highway, make her brain five hundred per cent productive.

She also has the advantage of the chef mind, wired to multitask under pressure.