You won't find a more moving and powerful account of love and loss Douglas Wight, News of the World The parents of Madeleine McCann ‘bitterly regret’ an event that may have led to their daughter’s disappearance (Credit: Splash News) Parents of Madeleine McCann know what contributed to her disappearance But it was only after Madeleine vanished that Kate discovered what the person who took the booking wrote in the open reservation book at the restaurant’s entrance. And it was then that she realised it would have been clear to anyone working at the restaurant, or any curious member of the public, that the children would be unsupervised in their rooms. ‘We now bitterly regret it’ It was difficult for the restaurant to accommodate the nine adults alone, so “after having a word with the receptionist at the pool and tapas area”, the group were pencilled in for a table for the rest of their week.

Madeleine Kate McCann’s ‘horror’ at hotel staff note before Madeleine

This book brought tears to my eyes several times... but despite the tragedy at the heart of the book, there are flashes of humour Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times This book was by definition accessible to all staff and, albeit unintentionally, probably to guests and visitors, too. Powerful... Kate's book blazes with the sheer, visceral force of her love for her daughter Sandra Parsons, Daily Mail The saddest story I have ever heard... it touches levels of human agony far beyond the reach of everyday journalism Craig Brown, Mail on SundayIt is high time the McCann haters pushed off... It seems clear that, far from self-justifying, or attention-seeking, this book is what it has always been about for the McCanns - a practical solution to fundraising Barbara Ellen, Observer Writing in Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search For Her, Kate shared that they requested the same table in the Ocean Club restaurant every night of their holiday. This is because it afforded Kate and Gerry – and their holidaying friends – the best view of the apartments where they left their sleeping children. Madeleine is not only an impressive and well-written chronicle of a terrible crime, it is a must-read because someone out there knows something James Murray, Sunday Express