I have no respect for those who seem to dedicate all their spare time to denigrating a woman who wrote a well received and best selling book about the trauma of losing her child, who pick on every word of that book to question, doubt, ridicule and pretend to be outraged by and who are able to read it and yet remain completely unmoved by it. Perhaps I should just feel sorry for such people as clearly they don’t like it up ‘em. It may have escaped your attention but during the heated debate yesterday I too was “abused” but I didn’t cry about it or beg my abuser to desist.
I don't think Kate professed to being a talented 'writer' she just did her best with the use of her diary to describe to the reader what happened on the night of 3rd of May and the following days.
So to ridicule what she has written [which is usually by those who have the belief that Kate is some how guilty of hiding Madeleine's body and knowing that she is dead] is just something that is quite sad in my opinion.
There have been the outrage 'how dare she talk about Madeleine's private parts like that' to the ridiculous 'It's all about Kate nothing about Madeleine' 'Madeleine should have a capital M'.
I would just like to ask if you were writing a book about your missing child and describing the horror of finding her missing, to the absolute disbelief when you are accused of having something to do with your child's disappearance, added to that, the continual torment of your imagination playing havoc with your mind to having the person leading the investigation write a book saying your child was dead and you hid her body.
How would you go about it? For one, I don't think you would fill the book about Madeleine, what would you say? Madeleine lived at @@@@@@ she went to nursery at @@@@@@ she was due to attend school at @@@@@ what would any of this information matter to anyone? I find it very strange that people actually want to know the ins and outs of a child who wasn't even four when she disappeared. The book title was no doubt left to the Publisher. As to the description of Madeleine's private parts being torn apart, I thought Kate was very honest there, saying 'I was plagued by visions of what a Paedophile was doing to my child' would not have cut to the very sole of a reader as much as 'torn genitals' would. That picture would be the horror of horrors. Kate wasn't showing a picture, she could have been describing any innocent child's private parts it was the horrifying picture she wanted to drum home.
To feel no emotion when reading Kates book is very strange. Maybe these people have no children and have never had the absolute love you feel for your child. When you lose them for a short time, the dread and fear that you feel, it's as if your heart is going to stop, your knees give in and you feel cut off from reality. When you find your child, the relief is over whelming. I really can't imagine what it must have been like to not find your child and to live with the loss day after day. I think Kate did well to try and give the reader a slight insight into her existence without Madeleine.
