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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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The ship is large but not enormous, and they’re let on and allocated two cabins. They are distracted by exploring them, looking out to open waters, and therefore Simone doesn’t realize for some while that the departure time has been and gone, and they’re still moored.

A delay with signalling, or something, says an electronic announcement board in a carpeted corridor. She is trying not to worry the longer it goes on.

Their cabin is like a hotel room. Simone’s never been on a cruise, and to have such opulence in these circumstances feels somewhat distasteful.

A white bed with a blue trim, a window seat looking out to the water, a new world of blue, sun the colour of the desert.

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