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KATE McCann
has penned a
book
about her lost daughter
Madeleine to encourage people to come
forward with fresh information.
The new
book, simply titled Madeleine, is due to be published on May 12, which
will be the Leicestershire schoolgirl’s eighth birthday.
Among
heartbreaking details about life since Madeleine’s disappearance during
a family holiday at
Praia da Luz, Portugal in May 2007 Kate reveals that she
still visits Maddie’s bedroom twice a day.
Kate and
her husband
Gerry,
both 42, are desperate to re-ignite the search for their daughter, and
hope that the book will jog memories and help create new lines of
inquiry in a case that has been cold for years.
Friends say
the McCanns are pinning all their hopes on Kate’s story prompting
someone to come forward with new information.
They
also hope to raise
funds so that their team of
private
investigators can continue trying to find Madeleine four
years after the little girl disappeared from their holiday
apartment as they
dined
out with
friends.
The
couple have had bad luck with private investigators. American Kevin
Halligen, is alleged to have conned the McCanns out of £300,000 and is
currently fighting extradition to the US on other fraud claims.
Their
hunt is now being led by two British ex-cops instead.
Kate
began writing the book five months ago at the family home in Rothley,
Leicestershire, while looking after the couple’s six-year-old twins,
Sean and Amelie.
Qualified doctor Kate relives the first days after Madeleine vanished in
the book, and charts the media storm in the months that followed when
Kate and
Gerry
became
suspects in their daughter’s
disappearance.
She
turned down the offer of a ghost writer because she wanted the book to
be in her own words.
The
McCanns hope sales of the book will raise more than £1million for
Madeleine’s fund.
The
couple have taken successful legal action to prevent the publication in
Britain of Portugese cop
Goncalo Amaral’s book about the case,
The Truth
Of The Lie, in which he repeats his hypothesis that the
McCanns were involved.
Since
Madeleine disappeared, Kate has given up her part-time position as a GP
at a practice in Melton Mowbray, and has spent the last five months
working day and night on the new book. |
