Friends said she “went to hell and back” to write the book she hopes will find her daughter, recollecting every detail from those first terrifying days four years ago.
She is being thrown back into the global media spotlight as she prepares for the publication of her 400-page memoir titled Madeleine, billed as “the most heartbreaking book you will ever read”.
Friends revealed that GP Kate, 43 spent five months on the book – which goes on sale on Madeleine’s eighth birthday next Thursday – and often broke down reliving her nightmare.
She hopes its launch will be the key to the solution and is using it to appeal to the youngster’s kidnappers to “let her come home”.
“The whole family is undergoing great stress,” said a friend who has been consoling Kate at her home in Rothley, Leicestershire. “Kate’s been in pieces.”
Friends revealed that GP Kate McCann, 43 spent five months on the book |
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She added: “Not only is the book about her darling daughter, which she never wanted to write, coming out but the family has also had to cope with the emotional fourth anniversary of her abduction.”
The friend said: “Kate is a very private person and doesn’t like being in the public spotlight.
“She only wrote the book because the Find Madeleine Fund set up to search for her daughter was running out of money.
“She has spent the last five months reliving every parent’s worst nightmare. She has only written the book because she feels it could help solve the mystery and could raise millions of pounds for the fund.
“At times it has been heartbreaking but she has tried to keep strong and carried on for Madeleine’s sake. She is now facing a week from hell as the book comes out and she has to do media interviews to keep it in the spotlight.”
The friend said Kate’s six-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie, helped their mother cope.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “At times reliving her nightmare has reduced her to tears. But it has also given her a great sense of focus and renewed hope that it could lead to her daughter being found.”
He added: “Kate is writing the book to raise awareness of her daughter’s disappearance and to pay private investigators to continue the search. Ultimately, she is hoping and praying it will lead to Madeleine being found alive.”
Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from the family’s holiday flat in the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 2007. Kate and her heart specialist husband Gerry, 42, are convinced the £20 book, to be published worldwide, will help to trigger new leads. They hope sales and syndication deals will raise more than £1million to boost the Find Madeleine fund.
The book was originally due to be released on April 28 but publishers Transworld delayed publication by a fortnight over fears it would clash with the “media frenzy” surrounding the Royal Wedding.
Mr Mitchell said: “We cannot predict if it will be a bestseller but Kate and Gerry are hoping it will sell very well. Every copy sold will assist the search for Madeleine.”
Kate still finds solace in sitting in Madeleine’s pretty pink bedroom twice a day, revealing: “It’s a comforting feeling. We haven’t changed anything.”
She admits she is stronger and her anger – “a horrible negative emotion” – which nearly destroyed her in the months after Madeleine’s disappearance has subsided. She said “The wounds are less raw but the pain doesn’t go away and the anxiety is always there. But I am definitely a lot stronger than a year ago.”
She added: “We’ve got a lot of hope that Madeleine is still alive. The difficult task is trying to find her but whilst there is hope we’ll keep going and will certainly never give up.”
Last Tuesday, the McCanns marked the anniversary with an open-air prayer vigil in their village, attended by relatives and well-wishers. Commenting on the painful experience of writing the book, devout Catholic Kate said: “We pray that it will bring us the result we long for and that not only the book but this whole ordeal and heartache will be behind us before too much longer.”
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ANOTHER MONEY MAKING ATTEMPT
07.05.11, 12:37pm
Why doesnt Kate go back to Portugal and answer the 48 questions she has refused to answer and ask for the case to be reopened? Why didnt the **** search for **** the night she went missing? This book smacks of one last desperate attempt to get money.
• Posted by: Christine44 • Report Comment
GREED
07.05.11, 11:47am
As someone who has read every police file ,statement etc on this case from a few days in ,when it was clear to see this was no abduction ( the ONLY ones ever to claim it WAS is ****) I said GREED would be the thing that catches them ,they will get too brave, get too greedy and the **** house of cards will come crashing down ,the end is in sight ****
• Posted by: sunshine • Report Comment
SERIAL ABANDONMENT AND ? SEDATION
07.05.11, 11:35am
6 medics abandon their children on a nightly basis - have they been reprimanded, never mind charged with neglect? 4 mothers walk out of their holiday apartments and leave their little toddlers unsupervised for hours at a time?? The PJ investigated abduction at the start - it was the British police who advised them to investigate homicide and with the parents as prime suspects. Why did Kate deny the possibility of waking and wandering?? Because her kids were sedated?? I hope the police go through this book with a fine tooth comb - and compare it with the statements.
• Posted by: Carmenita • Report Comment
SHUTTERS ?
07.05.11, 11:32am
i hope Kate tells us again about the SMASHED shutters !! but i would like to bet she doesnt ,and the reason why the 100% accurate cadaver dog found Maddies death scent in 5a,hire car and on Kates clothes ,they are pushing the luck they have had for 4 years by having friends in high places soon this luck will run out and they WILL be brought to account for what they did ,and the day cannot come soon enough RIP ****, betrayed by the people who should have died for her
• Posted by: sunshine • Report Comment
SEARCH? WHAT SEARCH?
07.05.11, 11:27am
What SEARCH is Kate reffering to? they never even searched on the first night they started this ENORMOUS farce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWCVSjIJk8 And in the 5 months Kate taken writing this fairy story why didnt see jump on a plane answer the 48 questions she flatly refused to answer(Remember the LTD CO slogan"NO STONE UNTURNED" all they have to do is answer questions,do reconstruction they ALSO flatly refused to do and the case will be re-OPENED ,but they have said they do NOT want case re-OPENING,you have to ask yourself why ?This book is about MONEY not ****,they also have the FAKE petition ongoing ,it is not on the official petition site ,you do not even have to verify signatures,so not worth a light ,as **** already know, just more propaganda ,and the uk government have already told them they will NOT act on it, there are over 650 Mps in Uk and not ONE has offered to help ,again ask WHY?They have got away with a LOT of things in the last 4 yrs ,and its time this circus was stopped ,and **** to get the justice she so deserves ,may **** and ALL who defend them rot in hell
• Posted by: sunshine • Report Comment
NO ENTRANCE
07.05.11, 11:02am
There was no entry through any windows because they have a mechanism to stop that happening,this was told to the policeman who led the Bulger case by a top employee of the ocean complex where the **** stayed.The **** are asking the world to believe that Gerry last saw **** at 9pm and Jane Tanner saw the abductor carrying **** at 9.10pm,so in that 10 mins between sightings of **** this abductor somehow got into the apartment,manouvered in total darkness(Kate admitted the apartment was in darkness) found ****,drugged all three children(Gerry said in the Panorama docu that he thought the children had been drugged)picked her up(why he chose the heaviest and oldest child)carried her to the window and somehow got himself and **** through the window,and got outside and walked right passed Gerry and Jeremy Wilkins who were talking outside,oh and this thoughtful paedophile abductor even made Madeleines bed,and all this plus he must of had special powers because not one single dna cell was found in the apartment.I suggest the Express ought to find it's guts and serialise Amaral's book,because i know which version of the two books i believe,and the express know it too.
• Posted by: fenella • Report Comment