But before Sive manages to catch up with them, the doors of the Tube close and it departs without her. As she bustles through a busy Tube station with her baby in the buggy, Sive’s two other young children push ahead and board the Tube. No One Saw A Thing, Mara’s latest novel, centres on busy journalist Sive, who pauses for a split second to check her phone while away with her family in London. And the featured court case is purely coincidental. Instead, she explains, as I detail the palpitations her book had given me while we chat over coffee a week later, the idea for the book stems from a real-life event from her own childhood. Throw in a fictional background and a high-profile gangland criminal court case involving two notorious families, as news of a particular high profile court case breaks at home, and you’d be forgiven for wondering if author Andrea Mara has a mysterious sort of 20/20 future vision that makes her publication timing impeccable. There’s something unnerving about reading a thriller about children who become separated from their parents while in a different country, when you happen to be, at that very moment in time, a parent who is away with her children in a different country.
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