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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CHAPTER 69 Simone

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At four o’clock this morning, Simone wakes from a dream that it is Lucy in jail, instead, locked up away from Simone, inexplicably bound and gagged and mute.

Simone then does nothing for the following twelve hours – so jarring in the era of Netflix and Kindle and iPhones – until (absurdly) four o’clock in the afternoon, when dinner is served.

There is no lingering over mains late at night here. Tuesday is pizza day in jail, and the pizzas are loaded on to plastic plates in the canteen, their cheesy ends dipping like Salvador Dalí clocks.