Four years ago, two of Mina Smallman's grown-up daughters failed to come home from a summer evening picnic in the park. Vanishing like this was out of character for Bibaa, who had been celebrating her 46th birthday, and 27-year-old Nikki... It's this question of what and who matters... that forms the heart of this intelligent memoir, which somehow manages to be neither angry nor bitter but suffused with love, empathy, and hope.
Though an investigation by the Independent Office of Police Conduct has since found no evidence linking failings in the initial Met response to stereotyping or biased assumptions about the sisters' race or where they lived, their mother is not so easily convinced. They didn't care because they looked at Bibaa's address and thought they knew who she was. A Black woman who lived on a council estate...
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