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2025: ‘I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.’
The Day I Lost You
What you need to know before your trail
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.
Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside – and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.
But Sam has gone missing.
So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.
But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.
So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.
Locations
Reset- England - Oxford
- A: Christ Church Meadow
- B: Botley Rd
- C: Iffley Lock
- D: St Giles'
- Spain (Basque Country)
- E: Huesca - park
- F: Lloret de Mar/Mantilla de Mar
Travel Guide
Mantilla de Mar, Spain
Not a real place but it could be one of several villages on the coast of the Basque country. There’s one or two on the map above so you can imagine. It sounds idyllic wherever it is!
The author says in her author note that the novel was inspired by a real life case she dealt with as a lawyer in court. She works as a solicitor and she was involved with this case and it really moved her. She keeps details vague of course but it’s interesting that the case which inspired the novel is so moving and complex.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Day I Lost You
Destination/Location: Mantilla de Mar, Spain Author: Ruth Mancini Departure: 2025
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