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2000s: You wake up in a strange room, with no idea how you got there.
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You wake up in a strange room, with no idea how you got there. You are abroad, in a city you have never visited before. You have no money, no passport, no phone.
And there is no sign of your baby. What do you do?
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The strange room is in an apartment block in Paris. Feeling sick and strange, Sophie can’t remember how she got there or why she feels so ill. She is confused to see the Paris streets as she stumbles outside –
“A cafe has tables outside, and people are sitting around eating bread out of baskets and pastries and drinking juice and coffee from little cups”
She has to wander and dash around the streets in Paris in utter confusion. With no money, passport or ID, how on earth will she be able to survive? and more importantly get home to London? The sights of Paris which normally might be enchanting given that it is Sophie’s first time in the city are dark and prove only to be good markers as she tries to find her way out
“I reach the river and see the Eiffel Tower on the other side of it. It is black and tall, pointing up at the pale blue sky, and could not be anything else.”
Then she manages to get to the station but with no passport and no money, not to mention no French, she finds herself with more problems than she first thought.
At the station, which smells like engines and dust and sweat, I walk to a ticket office.
‘I need to go to London,’ I say.
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