A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world of missing people. Christobal , unemployed, addicted to drugs, drink and adrift in life, decided to disappear. Leaving his young wife and seven year old child, Francisco, Christobal has been missing ever since.
Francisco decided to take up the search twenty years after his father’s disappearance. His journey takes him across Britain to Spain, his father’s homeland.
This beautifully crafted nonfiction novel tells the story of people Francisco meets along the way, the families, friends left behind, the police investigators, charity employees, volunteers and the -once-missing.
If you were there is an important compassionate and sensitively written book serves as timeless reminder of our responsibility to others.