Half the World Away, by Cath Staincliffe
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Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China, where she finds casual work as a private English tutor.
Back in Manchester her parents, Joanna and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, follow her adventures on her blog. When Joanna and Tom hear nothing for weeks, they become increasingly concerned and travel out to Chengdu in search of their daughter.
Landing in a totally unfamiliar country, Joanna and Tom are forced to turn detective, following in their daughter's footsteps.
When a woman's remains are discovered close to the last sightings of Lori, it appears they have found their daughter. But nothing could prepare them for the shocks still in store....
Half the World Away, by Cath Staincliffe - Amazon Sales Rank: #97262 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-09-11
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 632 minutes
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thriller set in Chengdu, China (“the city where the sun never shines”) By TripFiction Every parent’s nightmare…..Lorelei (Lori) heads off to South East Asia for a backpacking adventure – and ends up in China. It’s not hard for her mother Jo and stepfather Nick to keep in touch in the era of the internet, she regularly blogs about her travels and experiences, so everyone can follow her journey. A familiar family scenario.But soon the posts dry up, causing a ripple of concern initially but, hey, these young folk get distracted and involved in what they are doing. It’s normal. But as days turn into a couple of weeks, the anxiety rises and Jo turns from Nick to Tom, Lori’s biological father. This of course adds strain to the floundering relationship between Jo and Nick…Together, Tom and Jo decide they must set out for Chengdu (pronounced Chungdu) in Sizuan Province, China, where Lori had settled for a stint of teaching. So they head off from Manchester on KLM and pop up in hugely unfamiliar territory, where the sights, sounds and smells compound their unease. They have solid support and advice from Missing Overseas but the input on the ground is not effusive or really that engaged. Our man in Chengdu, the consul Peter Dunne, is there to help the parents though the formalities and it is clear that the the local police force doesn’t want to see the image of their city tarnished by anything murky or untoward. Resolve and perseverance, really, are the only qualities that are carrying Tom and Jo along, and the whole process feels frustratingly slow. The investigation crawls and this is palpable, the parents largely have to fall back on their own resources to get to the bottom of what has been going on; their daughter is clearly now a missing person.It is quite sobering to realise that people go missing abroad sufficiently often for charities to be established in order to help locate them and support families and friends back home. Cath talked to the Lucie Blackman Trust (formerly Missing Abroad) when she was researching the book. It is however all too clear that the wheels of bureaucracy run excruciatingly slowly in real life – and in the story Jo and Tom clearly have to push as hard as they can to find out the fate of their missing daughter.Chengdu provides a superb, hot and chili soaked backdrop to the heart stopping search for Lori, and clearly Cath renders it as a vibrant and at times oppressive place – the people mill as the parents endeavour to crack through the wall of foreign-ness with which they are confronted… feeding carp with baby bottles, or discovering that 20% of the world’s computers are made there, or bike riders wearing their jackets back to front….A gripping read.We chat to the author about writing and China: http://www.tripfiction.com/thriller-set-in-chengdu/
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Absolutely—and terrifyingly—believable, and will send a chill deep into the heart of parents. By Jim Napier, mystery & crime fiction reviewer After graduating from university British student Lori Maddox wants a break. Like many recent grads she’s decided to spend her gap year abroad, photographing her travels and posting her adventures on a blog site. A twenty-three-year-old with a sensible head on her shoulders, her plans include stops in Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Her family, mother Jo, father Tom, and stepfather Nick are delighted. They wouldn’t dream of standing in Lori’s way. In September they drive her to the airport, happy that she is opening a new door on her life.For a few days everything goes well; then the emails cease. Soon, however, she resumes posting on her blog and their concerns disappear. More weeks go by and Lori posts from Vietnam. She’s made a new friend, an Australian named Dawn Jeffreys, and together they plan to visit China. On Christmas Day they Skype Lori. Everything seems to be going really well: she’s enchanted by the sites she’s photographed in her travels, and she’s picking up bits of the language. In February she emails them with some surprising news: she’s working for an agency in Chengdu, China, tutoring locals in English. It’s giving her some welcome income and made it possible for her to prolong her stay.But by April there are some worrying signs. It’s been nine days since Lori’s last post on her blog, and she’s not answering Jo’s emails. Two more days pass and Jo considers contacting the British police. They take the details, but she is, after all, an adult, and they’re not overly concerned. They promise to pass the information on to the Chinese authorities and suggest that she contact a charity group named Missing Overseas, where Jo posts the details of Lori’s disappearance. Before long she gets a call from Lori’s friend Dawn, who’s hardly reassuring: the last time she’d heard from Lori was three weeks ago.Faced with the intransigence of the Chinese authorities and the well-meaning-but-ineffectual British career diplomat in a nearby consulate assigned to help, Jo and Tom decide to journey to China themselves and conduct their own search. What they encounter will turn out to be every parent’s worst nightmare: unable to speak the language, unfamiliar with the customs involved in approaching total strangers, and ill-equipped in investigative techniques and international protocol, they find themselves truly strangers in a strange land, utterly isolated and at loggerheads with the system at every turn.In Half the World Away Cath Staincliffe deftly taps into the concerns of many parents who are blessed with talented children entering adulthood—committed to broadening their range of experiences, yet at the same time anxious, even apprehensive, about what unforeseen situations they may encounter. Her narrative is absolutely—and terrifyingly—believable, and will send a chill deep into the heart of parents with children approaching maturity. It is the age-old dilemma of wanting the best for your offspring, yet wanting to keep them safe and look after them for as long as possible. It is, of course, an unwinnable situation, which makes its resonance with readers all the stronger. Staincliffe’s forte lies not only in her ability to create and absolutely compelling tale featuring believable and engaging characters, but also in her talent to explore the nuances of their relationships; the tension that arises between Lori’s mother Jo and her ex as they search for Lori spills over into Jo’s relationship with her present husband, and threatens to poison their relationship as well. It all makes for very convincing reading. In the end the award-winning author has produced yet another superbly layered suspense tale that will leave readers satisfied, yet profoundly disturbed._______Originally published in Reviewing the Evidence, August 2015.Since 2005 Jim Napier's reviews and interviews have appeared in several Canadian newspapers and on such websites as Spinetingler, The Rap Sheet, Shots Magazine, Crime Time, Reviewing The Evidence, January magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, the Ottawa Review of Books, and Amazon.com, as well as on his own award-winning crime fiction site, Deadly Diversions.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Half the world away and missing By read-along-with-sue Cath Staincliffe is a well developed author that can get your attention from the very start.If you had an adult child who wanted to travel, would you stop them? No. Her step dad was very encouraging of her getting 'life' experiences. Her Mother too, but of course us Mums would be saying "Stay in touch""Be careful, but enjoy yourself" "Let me know how you are"And such things like this.Lori, their daughter has just graduated and wants to take her photography expertise and make use of it travelling to China. Just think of all the beautiful experiences she can have there and all those photo's she can take.Waving her off was very hard for her Mom, but us Moms have to let our children flee the nest and after all, Lori has been away at University, but she did come home now and again, much more than she will be from half the world away!How would you feel if your daughter or son was half the world away from you and where they usually kept in contact, suddenly, you cannot reach them?What if you were following their blog about their trip and suddenly days go by without any posts?Text messages not being read let alone being replied to.You would tell yourself, just wait a little time. See if I am not over reacting.But then........Your instincts tell you...This is not normal. I "feel" something is wrong.Your worse fear has come true........SHE IS MISSINGThe very tense moments of this is so spell binding. I found it literally hard to break myself away from these pages when the intensity warmed up.The author writes with such feeling, such emotion, you feel you are experiencing what these parents are experiencing.Yes it has TWIST and yes it has TURNS and unexpectedly, you do not know which way it is going to go.Will she be found?Will she be found alive?What I loved about this also, was the telling of how others reacted when they knew Lori was missing.Also, that Lori is not missing in the UK she is missing in another country altogether and of course, they have their own ways of doing things which just doesn't seem feasible or acceptable at times.Can you tell I liked this book :)Its a no brainer, I would definitely say ONE CLICK this, you would miss out on a brilliant read if not.
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