Looking For Hope
Elin Annalise
Sticky face, ice cream in hair,
chocolate, smiling a gappy smile
because the tooth-fairy would visit
tonight. So tap-dancing shoes span
faster and faster and faster.
Sparkly blue nails, new Elsa dress,
and her favorite teddy holding her hand
while mine remained empty
forgotten, free
in the gloom of the railway station.
The next, she was gone, left with us
only in darkness and shouts
in streetlights and high-vis jackets
in sniffer dogs and TV appeals
in missing posters and red tears
in reporters asking, Why did you leave her?
Asking me liked I’d meant for this to happen
when I'd only been a minute,
stiff fingers reaching for luke-warm coffee
with congealed milk floating in old polystyrene.
A minute was all it took.
It's been three years since Georgia's younger sister Hope went missing. Three years in which Georgia's stopped everything—including escaping her abusive marriage—as she vowed to find her sister. But there have never been any sightings of Hope and the police failed to find any leads. It’s almost like Hope never existed in the first place…
With her mother gravely ill and desperate to know what happened to Hope before it’s too late, Georgia hires PI Simona Eastlake. While it appears even Simona cannot find Hope, what the PI can do is give Georgia the confidence and help to leave her husband. That’s if Georgia will do this—after all, she made a promise to find Hope before she ever does anything for herself again.
LOOKING FOR HOPE is a verse novel of love and loss, of grief and hope, and of acceptance and new beginnings. It is also own-voices for asexual representation.
This book contains scenes that some readers may find distressing, including talk of child abuse and severe mental illness.
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