In 1977, Margaret Wilcox faces every mother's worst nightmare - the abduction of her child. The kidnapper is not a stranger but the child's father, Hadi.
When Margaret first meets Hadi at a party on Valentine's Day, 1969, in Libya, she is entranced. Handsome and sophisticated, he is the classic romantic stranger; he sweeps her off her feet, marries her and they embark on an exotic life in Spain, where the fairytale continues. But with the birth of their child, Tanya, Hadi turns from an urbane charmer into a controlling tyrant. When Margaret flees to London, Hadi follows, snatches their now three-year-old daughter and disappears, telling the child her mother is dead.
Gone tells the dramatic story of Margaret's long search to be reunited with Tanya, a journey that takes her all over the world and into the darkest corners of the human psyche. At every turn she is thwarted by uncaring bureaucracies and clumsy legal systems that insist when it comes to child custody, possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Inspiring, unforgettable and profoundly moving, this is the story of hope against reason, and the determination of a mother whose only dream is to once again hold her child in her arms.
