Goodbye, Dearest Holly - Kevin Wells

This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books that I have ever read. I challenge anyone with an ounce of soul to read it and not sob at some point through the book. I'm going to first of all say that I own the hardback version of the book, not that that makes a lot of difference, but still it does mean that the book keeps in a nice condition even after a couple of read throughs. The book tells the story of Kevin Wells, the father of Holly from the Soham murders, which if you don't know about I'd suggest you're better off not finding out about. It tells the tragic story that Kevin and family went through from the day that Holly and her ...  Read the complete review

In the summer of 2002 I visited my goddaughter and her family in the beautiful Cambridgeshire village of Little Thetford, I spent a week there and one day went with her to nearby Soham because she had some errands to run. I loved the peace of the place, phoning my daughter to say what a lovely little village it was and how wonderful it would be to live in an area where you can safely let your children out to play. My words were to come back to me when a month later little Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing, later found to have been murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley. News coverage verged on the voyeuristic and the pain of the ...  Read the complete review