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2000s: A missing child and tug of war between two women
Mother Island
What you need to know before your trail
Maggie has been working as a nanny for her cousin Nula in Oxford. She has been looking after little Samuel who’s two ever since she dropped out of university. Handy since mum Nula and her husband work every day and so they need someone they trust to take care of their little boy.
But Maggie has a secret in her past and one day she takes Samuel, grabbing only a few bits and pieces and flees to Anglesey where she lived as a teenager. But why does she take him and what does she expect to happen when she does? What did happen one summer when she and Nula used to play in the Anglesey fields in the summer months?
Travel Guide
Anglesey is the place Maggie runs to – and back to her past, a town she knew as a teenager. But what is the draw back to this area? It’s a fair distance from Oxford and not an easy journey to make with a toddler.
The story thread is all about what happened one log summer in Anglesey where Nula and Maggie used to play together when youngsters. But something happened which Maggie has never been able to forget. It’s the story of what happened in Anglesey and what happened between the two cousins. Family secrets come out one by one and Mother Island, its name and environment becomes a lot more sinister and revealing.
Anglesey is a nice and calm place but here it’s spilt between past and present, with secrets and family problems mixed together. The island setting is apt – Anglesey is also known as Môn, Mam Cymru, or the Mother of Wales. A story about mothers and motherly love, with a child at the centre of it all.
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