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Behind Closed Doors
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Behind Closed Doors is the story of Scarlett Rainsford, who disappeared while on a family holiday in Rhodes ten years ago. Scarlett’s disappearance was one of the first investigations Lou Smith worked on, and not being able to find Scarlett has been one of her biggest regrets. So when Scarlett turns up unexpectedly working in a brothel in her home town, Lou is desperate to find out where she’s been all these years. But Scarlett isn’t ready to talk, just yet – and she’s not too keen to see her family again, either.
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The author explains both on her website and the author note that the inspiration for Scarlett’s story came from a number of media reports into trafficking cases in the UK and Europe. She had come across several memoirs of women who had been trafficked, and had remembered the heartbreaking read and true story of Slave Girl by Sarah Forsyth. This she says was the starting point for the novel and for the character of Scarlett as what could have happened to a girl like that over the years. How had she not been able to come home? How on earth could she be rescued both physcially and mentally?
Sarah Forsyth was a girl who was born in Newcastle and horrifically abused and neglected by those who were supposed to be taking care of her. She made a life for herself however despite her horrific start in life and one day answered a newspaper ad for a job in a creche in Amsterdam. Only when she got there, there was no job and no where to run..
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Author/ Guide: Elizabeth Haynes Destination: Rhodes, Fictional Briarstone, England Departure Time : 2000s
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