IMO that is an absurd conclusion on your part. Do you SERIOUSLY believe Kate's book downplays the unique situation of Madeleine's disappearance? Incredible...
So what do you think Kate should have done to highlight the unique situation of her daughter's disappearance more than she already did?
Yes and I am not just referring to the finished article but the events as told. Specifically the McCanns insistence that what they were doing of an evening was akin to eating in the garden at home with the children asleep in their bedrooms when clearly it wasn't. Also playing down the fact the patio doors were unsecured.
It was the following evening, Sunday 3rd June - exactly a month after Madeleine's abduction - that Gerry and I opened up a little more to each other and shared some of the thoughts and anxieties that had been quietly tormenting us both; thoughts and anxieties that perhaps we hadn't felt able or ready to voice up to now.
We'd been sitting alone at the table, working at our computers. It was quiet and the lights were low. Though I can't remember how the conversation started, I'm glad it did. We'd talked through the guilt we felt about not having been in that apartment with the children; about having left the patio doors unlocked. How we found it hard to comprehend that we could have been so naive. We acknowledged the possibility that Madeleine might no longer be alive; the possibility that we might never find out what had happened to her. Would we ever be able to return to our home, the home we had shared with her? Maybe we should move elsewhere. Where? We discussed the need we felt to do our utmost to prevent this from happening to another child; to prevent another family going through what we going through. We have to ensure that something positive for someone, even if it wasn't us, came out of this horrific experience.
For me, the honest exposure of this buried poison was like lancing a boil. Admitting these secret fears and concerns, bringing them out into the open and sharing them with the only other person who was persecuted in the same way, made them suddenly a little easier to understand and to manage. Strengthened and comforted, I fell asleep that night more peacefully than I had in many days.If they were only able to open up to each other about the patio doors on 3rd June then a whole month had passed when they were being reticent with what is arguably one of the most important features of the case.