SALES & PUBLICITY:
• Sarah’s experience is not uncommon, each year around 300 British children are abducted and taken abroad by a parent. Returning the child can prove impossible. Libya is outside of The Hague International convention on child abduction and Sarah was the first mother to successfully bring her child back – there are many parents still fighting.
• Sarah will be available for all forms of publicity and will be appearing on This Morning.
• Extracts and reviews will run in a variety of print media including The Daily Mail.
• Foreword by Andy Burnham, who was Sarah’s MP at the time, and is now Shadow Health Secretary.
KEY POINTS:
• When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, her abusive ex-husband, Sarah’s whole world was turned upside down.
• Shadowy CCTV from the airport showed Nadia boarding a flight with her father to Tripoli and Sarah’s worst fears were confirmed.
• No child abducted to Libya had ever been successfully returned to their mother in England; but Sarah was not going to let that stop her.
• Giving up everything she had in England, Sarah moved to Libya to fight for her daughter.
• Fawzi managed to move Nadia secretly between his relatives for 2 years, attempting to hide her away. But a dramatic car chase through the backstreets of Tripoli finally led to the safe reconciliation of mother and daughter.
• In a story of blackmail, embezzlement, secret police, a meeting with Colonel Gadaffi and the intervention of Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Sarah never gave up hope, and hers is an unparalleled tale of inspiration and courage.