Was the book Madeleine written for cathartic or financial reasons?

[Carana]

I believe the book was written for carthartic and financial reasons,   but mainly cathartic.

Kate has said that she needed to put their side of story out there.    How frustrating it must have been with Amaral's book  in the public domain with what he believed had happened to Madeleine.    It must have been devastating  and would bring a feeling of helplessness.

By writing her book,   I believe it would have been good for Kate to get all her feelings out on paper,  to tell her story.

Kate had kept a record of what happened right from the beginning in her diary,   she wanted the details in order for Madeleine to know what happened and that they had been trying to find her from the start.

Of course Kate McCann is no writer in that sense,   she obviously had help and I can imagine when asked of the way she was feeling when in the depth of knowledge that her daughter had been snatched by who knows who,   all the feelings of desperation would come out.     Also how everything had affected her relationship with Gerry.    Everything came out as it was,   she was very honest.

I believe this book was written firstly to get the truth out,    secondly because it would help Kate to get it all out  and thirdly it helped to fill the fund.

That's my impression as well, Lace, although I think the diminishing fund may have been higher up as a priority as, at the time, they didn't know that the case would be reviewed.

[stephen25000]

I wonder how many times in history a 'fund' has been set up to finance, including legal costs, the result of blatantly incompetent parenting ?

[Lace]

I wonder how many times in history a 'fund' has been set up to finance, including legal costs, the result of blatantly incompetent parenting ?

The public were giving money to the McCann's to help the search for Madeleine Stephen,   that is why the fund was set up.

[stephen25000]

As regards the fund, how many donators knew it would be funding the mccanns legal expenses, PR experts, personal finances, etc. ?

and precisely how much was spent on the 'search' itself ?

[Estuarine]

I wonder how many times in history a 'fund' has been set up to finance, including legal costs, the result of blatantly incompetent parenting ?

This is what sticks in peoples throats imo. What has been done is not illegal [unless at some point it can be proved the McCanns knew Madeleine was dead before the company was set up] but there is a history of misleading language surrounding it which aims to lend an air of "respectability" to it. IMO it is not much better than a Crown and Anchor game.

[colombosstogey]

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.

It took her six months to write a book about the disappearance of her daughter, and yet only a few minutes to make her disappear in the first place.

I found the book what I read of it, almost sickening especially the lurid detail on page 129:

"Haltingly, I told him about the awful pictures that scrolled through my head of her body, her perfect little genitals torn apart..."

What a horrible thing to write about....I found also it was a cathartic attack on Amaral in the main....

[Estuarine]

It took her six months to write a book about the disappearance of her daughter, and yet only a few minutes to make her disappear in the first place.

I found the book what I read of it, almost sickening especially the lurid detail on page 129:

"Haltingly, I told him about the awful pictures that scrolled through my head of her body, her perfect little genitals torn apart..."

What a horrible thing to write about....I found also it was a cathartic attack on Amaral in the main....

Unbelievably warped imo.

[Lace]

Unbelievably warped imo.

Warped?    what images would you have if you thought your child had been abducted by a Pervert?    Kate told it as it was,   if the truth is too much for you then tough.

[Estuarine]

Warped?    what images would you have if you thought your child had been abducted by a Pervert?    Kate told it as it was,   if the truth is too much for you then tough.

Not those thoughts that's for sure. Kate told it for sensationalism. Were it any one other than Kate McCann you would not be supporting such a gross statement.
The question I would ask you is would you recognise the truth if it jumped up and bit your ass.

[Lace]

Not those thoughts that's for sure. Kate told it for sensationalism. Were it any one other than Kate McCann you would not be supporting such a gross statement.
The question I would ask you is would you recognise the truth if it jumped up and bit your ass.

You wouldn't have those thoughts?   You wouldn't imagine what could have happened to your child?    I don't think you would have any control over what would jump into your imagination if it happened to you.    All parents of an abducted child would say that they would be plagued by unwelcome imaginings.  You are not being realistic at all.

What truth are you talking about that I wouldn't recognise?

[Estuarine]

You wouldn't have those thoughts?   You wouldn't imagine what could have happened to your child?    I don't think you would have any control over what would jump into your imagination if it happened to you.    All parents of an abducted child would say that they would be plagued by unwelcome imaginings.  You are not being realistic at all.

What truth are you talking about that I wouldn't recognise?

Most certainly I would not think in the terms expressed by Dr K McCann. However you may wish to excuse it it is gross sensationalism. The rest is speculation on your part as to what I may or may not think based on guessing what I may or may not be like as an individual.

[Lace]

Most certainly I would not think in the terms expressed by Dr K McCann. However you may wish to excuse it it is gross sensationalism. The rest is speculation on your part as to what I may or may not think based on guessing what I may or may not be like as an individual.

You don't know what you would think or do as you have not been in the position that Kate McCann was in.   To call it gross sensationalism just shows that you have no idea how or what a person would think if their child was abducted.    Kate was honest about what she was thinking,  it is a shame that some are not adult enough to understand.

[colombosstogey]

Not those thoughts that's for sure. Kate told it for sensationalism. Were it any one other than Kate McCann you would not be supporting such a gross statement.
The question I would ask you is would you recognise the truth if it jumped up and bit your ass.

I think its an horrific statement to make in a book that could be read by younger people.  Also really it makes no sense, as IF the McCanns do think she is with a pedophile they are not naive enough to believe she is still alive surely?

I just felt the statement was totally unwarranted and not necessary. SENTIONALISM at its worse IMHO because really apart from flogging or flaggeration of poor Mr Amaral there was nothing else in it but then I honestly only did speed read it as I ran out of peptopismal as it made my stomach churn.

[Lace]

I think its an horrific statement to make in a book that could be read by younger people.  Also really it makes no sense, as IF the McCanns do think she is with a pedophile they are not naive enough to believe she is still alive surely?

I just felt the statement was totally unwarranted and not necessary. SENTIONALISM at its worse IMHO because really apart from flogging or flaggeration of poor Mr Amaral there was nothing else in it but then I honestly only did speed read it as I ran out of peptopismal as it made my stomach churn.

There are millions of books that could be read by younger people that have a lot worse than that in them.

Kate give her thoughts about how she felt very frankly and if that upsets some, then it should make them understand how Kate felt,  do you think she wanted to imagine these things?     If you are offended by what she said then don't read a book about a missing child.

I will tell you what made my stomach churn,   the idea that loving parents could hide their child,   dig her up weeks later,  stuff her in a freezer then transport her in a car.   THAT'S sickening and all in Amaral's book that could be read by younger people.

[jassi]

I think its an horrific statement to make in a book that could be read by younger people.  Also really it makes no sense, as IF the McCanns do think she is with a pedophile they are not naive enough to believe she is still alive surely?

I just felt the statement was totally unwarranted and not necessary. SENTIONALISM at its worse IMHO because really apart from flogging or flaggeration of poor Mr Amaral there was nothing else in it but then I honestly only did speed read it as I ran out of peptopismal as it made my stomach churn.

That is the conundrum - something that in general, McCann supporters don't wish to think about.