When an 11-year-old girl goes missing on the small Scilly island of St Martin’s, her wealthy father is convinced it is just another ‘prank’ by his spirited twin daughter.
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I spent hours last week trying to calculate the best way to stretch some Air Miles from London to Aberdeen, to be with my mother on her birthday.
All the pictures on the website were of, frankly, more exotic destinations: Greek villages overlooking the deep blue of the Aegean, the aqua of the Caribbean lapping a palm-fringed beach, beautiful people partying in Ibiza.
I am an island obsessive. I love one in the sun, but also a wind-blown craggy northern one. There is something about crossing water to get to land ideally aboard a ferry that instils a spirit of adventure.