Sometimes we loose a thing or a person ...why do we miss that thing or person? Is there any difference between loosing a thing & misplacing it? Yeah, because misplaced things get placed back after searching but lost things can’t be found…
They disappear! Do these things take a part of you with them anytime? Is there any reason behind it that those lost things or people never come back? Where do they go? Sometimes you keep a pen on the desk & then after a while it vanishes somewhere in the air …you give a vein try to search for it all the places…all the places where it supposed to be laying.
But after going through all the places & corners you find nothing … time goes by and you forget about the pen u lost & one day you find yourself staring at ‘it’ laying on a corner of the desk …you feel surprised from where the hell it came to the same place… Haven’t you noticed it earlier? Where was it at that moment? What about lost people about whom we cant find any evidences of death or anything? Where do all these things go…
Sandy Shortt a 10 yr old girl -with height exactly opposite to that her name suggests … staying in a row house in Ireland try to find answers for all above questions after finding her ‘rival’ classmate Jane-May lost on one afternoon. But before she disappears Sandy had had wish she to get ‘lost’…Jane-May vanishes in thin air, but she takes a part of Sandy’s soul with her… keeping Sandy always alerted about loosing her things …her socks, her teddy Mr. bonnes, her people each & everything belonged to her. Sandy keeps on labelling her things & keeps loosing them. Her strange behaviour leads her way to Gregory a psychiatrist young & handsome where her life gets an edge of misty romance.
She rises to a young & bold woman from a 10yr old girl… still standing out in crowd with her lengthy legs! She chooses to be a gardai & then starts her private practice… keeps on searching things & people desperately which make her away from her loving ones. Sleepless nights keep her awake searching for people & to get lost sometimes without any trail behind but to return back. Everyone knowing her is used to her vanishing magic. Meanwhile she comes across with Jack Ruttle- another nightbird, desperate to find his year long vanished brother Donal. Who believes Sandy to be only answer to find out Donal and finally invests himself in searching for her…When she goes on ‘missing’…
She finds herself in the land of people for whom she was looking through her whole life … A ‘nowhere’ land called ‘Here’… The story runs further to let her gain her missing part of her ‘Soul’ back …
Author of Best seller book ‘P S I love you’, Cecelia Ahern renders the missing people’s place in her novel ‘A place called HERE’. Story plays a smooth transaction between imagination & reality. A fairytale, a fiction, romance – this smooth ride takes all stations of feelings. Ride it!!