Was the book Madeleine written for cathartic or financial reasons?

[Sherlock Holmes]

To me it was a catharsis which Kate badly needed. And if the book made money, which it did, then good.

One gets a very strong sense from the narrative that the purpose is really catharsis. The book was written primarily for Kate McCann - not for anyone else.

[icabodcrane]

One gets a very strong sense from the narrative that the purpose is really catharsis. The book was written primarily for Kate McCann - not for anyone else.

We all  sense things differently,  I suppose

The  'sense'  I get is that the book was written for two reasons   ...  neither of which was for it's cathartic value to Kate McCann 

I sense that the book was written in an attempt to re-enforce the McCann  'narrative'    ...   and in order to make enough money to pay the enormous legal fees they are piling up

[Redblossom]

One gets a very strong sense from the narrative that the purpose is really catharsis. The book was written primarily for Kate McCann - not for anyone else.

And why would anyone be intereted in"kate" rather than "madeleine"

The book was to  make money but in being written had to rewrite  history too


Four months before it was launched she went on morning tv saying her role in the campaign was " income generation"

and shed been writing it for six months apparently

[Sherlock Holmes]

We all  sense things differently,  I suppose

The  'sense'  I get is that the book was written for two reasons   ...  neither of which was for it's cathartic value to Kate McCann 

I sense that the book was written in an attempt to re-enforce the McCann  'narrative'    ...   and in order to make enough money to pay the enormous legal fees they are piling up

Those things are definitely important.

But there are many ways of making money and gaining publicity - for people who are tenacious and well-connected.

This was a highly personal way of doing that.

[Redblossom]

Those things are definitely important.

But there are many ways of making money and gaining publicity - for people who are tenacious and well-connected.

This was a highly personal way of doing that.

yea writing a book about what the worlds media had been writing about for donkeys years  but from "the horses mouth" as it were
This time

Bound to be a best seller, whatever was in it really

One of the reasons Kate said the book was important was it might jog peoples memories, shame she never put the smiths efit into it hey. DANG! every other tom dick or harry but not the only person seen by a load of witnesses carrying a four yr old blonde child on the night, how very very strange sherlock

[Sherlock Holmes]

And why would anyone be intereted in"kate" rather than "madeleine"

The book was to  make money but in being written had to rewrite  history too


Four months before it was launched she went on morning tv saying her role in the campaign was " income generation"

and shed been writing it for six months apparently

We're speaking about what Kate's motivation was. The public are probably not interested in every last thought of hers, yet the book is as much about her thoughts and ideas as it is about Madeleine herself.

Of course money comes into it, that is a given.

[icabodcrane]

Those things are definitely important.

But there are many ways of making money and gaining publicity - for people who are tenacious and well-connected.

This was a highly personal way of doing that.

Are there  ?

What ways of making money are you thinking of  ?  ...  sponsored events  ? ...  begging bowl to the rich and famous ?  ...  appeals to the public ?  ...  magazine deals  ? 

Those avenues had been exhausted,  and still the legal fees kept piling up

They had to be paid somehow  ...  the  'book'  was  the answer 

What they do now though,  with financial resources drying up,  whilst legal fees just keep on growing,  is anyone's guess 

[Redblossom]

We're speaking about what Kate's motivation was. The public are probably not interested in every last thought of hers, yet the book is as much about her thoughts and ideas as it is about Madeleine herself.

Of course money comes into it, that is a given.

She would have been better off answering the 48 questions!
Not rewriting history, not embellishing facts, and not whinging complaining  and blaming so many people, its quite abhorent her pointing her finger to so many innocents as well as the ingratitude to those who helped, she is quite unforgiveable all in all

[Sherlock Holmes]

Are there  ?

What ways of making money are you thinking of  ?  ...  sponsored events  ? ...  begging bowl to the rich and famous ?  ...  appeals to the public ?  ...  magazine deals  ? 

Those avenues had been exhausted,  and still the legal fees kept piling up

They had to be paid somehow  ...  the  'book'  was  the answer 

What they do now though,  with financial resources drying up,  whilst legal fees just keep on growing,  is anyone's guess

I mean that if the McCanns are as well connected and powerful as they are sometimes portrayed as being, with wealthy sponsors and friends in high places - not to mention the British tax payer, who seems to have been very magnanimous of late - then there would be different ways of securing funds.

Going by the logic that the book was mainly for financial reasons and that funds must be drying up, do you think we should be expecting a sequel?

[VIXTE]

IMO the book is a result of her inner struggle to come to terms with her loss... and also to write her own answer to all of the stories she as well can read on the net..

[AnneGuedes]

Had "Madeleine" a cathartic virtue, the case against Amaral would likely have been dropped.
The motivation was making money, Mrs McCann said it many times. Making money and attempting to set in stone their account of the truth. There was the rub ! How much could she free herself from history to rewrite it, betraying, omitting, suggesting ?
Nevertheless the first objective was pretty well achieved, the second, neither informative nor "written", only convinced those who were already fans.

[Redblossom]

Had "Madeleine" a cathartic virtue, the case against Amaral would likely have been dropped.
The motivation was making money, Mrs McCann said it many times. Making money and attempting to set in stone their account of the truth. There was the rub ! How much could she free herself from history to rewrite it, betraying, omitting, suggesting ?
Nevertheless the first objective was pretty well achieved, the second, neither informative nor "written", only convinced those who were already fans.

+1


Nothing but a money making exercise

one catharsises themselves to their counsellors or priests, friends or family, but they dont normally pay you for doing so

But the SUN will give you  half a million pound for extracts from your book about  a missing child and shove in our faces that I COULDNT MAKE LOVE TO GERRY because of what happened

the same group they complained about notw printing kates diary and how mentally raped she felt! as she told leveson inquiry

Got over it quick i suppose after the 125k payment as apology and half a million for extracts from her book deal


PUKE!!!
at the hypocrisy and lies

[AnneGuedes]

I mean that if the McCanns are as well connected and powerful as they are sometimes portrayed as being, with wealthy sponsors and friends in high places - not to mention the British tax payer, who seems to have been very magnanimous of late - then there would be different ways of securing funds.

Going by the logic that the book was mainly for financial reasons and that funds must be drying up, do you think we should be expecting a sequel?

"Answering 48 questions and one" would possibly sell well, especially the "one".

[Sherlock Holmes]

"Answering 48 questions and one" would possibly sell well, especially the "one".

You make it sound like the 98 Theses!

[AnneGuedes]

You make it sound like the 98 Theses!

Oh I was thinking of Scheherazade, The thousand nights and One" !