For decades, Nishla Smith’s family have lived with a mystery. The story handed down across the generations was that Agnes, the girl who would have become Smith’s great-aunt, had disappeared at the age of nine, never to be seen again.
You would expect such a scenario to prompt an investigation in the manner of Who Do You Think You Are? with trawls through the register of births and deaths, interviews with strangers and revelatory trips to Malaysia, where she vanished. But Smith does something more beguiling.
