All these arresting images have one thing in common: they belong to stories – Don’t Look Now, The Child in Time and The Missing – with a missing or dead child at their centre. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obsession … Benedict Cumberbatch in The Child In Time. But their bond can only exist against the narrator’s awareness that their adoptive daughter is not with her own family; that for them, she is a missing child. She commits perhaps the greatest parental transgression of all when her son, John Andrew, is killed in a riding accident. Of course, there are occasions when a child is missing, or dead, but not to us.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2017 04:52 UTC