A successful author has used his latest psychological thriller to exorcise the memory of a shattering childhood tragedy after a poignant flashback was triggered by his daughter asking if a monster was lurking in a pond.
Alex Woolf, 58, says his entire family’s lives were thrown into chaos in 1972 when his three-year-old sister, Abigail, stumbled into an algae-covered canal and drowned after he turned his back for one moment as a child when they went out for a picnic.
