Місяць: Грудень 2025
I found Mums old diary tucked away in the attic, and when I finally read it, everything clicked why shed

**Journal Entry 30th October** *”Get back to the kitchen!”* he snapped at his wife.

April 12, 2025 The phone rang just as I was drying the last plate after supper. An unfamiliar number

I had cared for my little Holly for twelve years, convinced that her mother had gone off to work overseas.

July 14 I never imagined I could know so little about my own child. For years I convinced myself that

Im sixty years old and live in Manchester. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that after all Id

He left on a business trip and never came back. The truth turned out to be far stranger than I had imagined.

19May 2023 The phone rang just after dinner. A flat, officious voice announced, Mr. Clarke, your wife

30April I still cant believe how quickly things spiraled out of control last week. It started with a

**Diary Entry** When I turned fifteen, my parents decided they absolutely needed another child.










