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Now the parameters of his search could be narrowed, tracking down Celia was far easier.
It took him just three calls to find her. Not a nurse as she claimed, but a patient at Melton Road Private Psychiatric Hospital, where she had been a resident of one kind or another since 1997, the year after her father’s disappearance.
A doctor told Slim—posing as a family friend—that Celia had been an outpatient since early 2006, living in a care-assisted flat in Tavistock, allowed to sleep there three nights a week, and even to hold a part time job in a local factory.
Her illness: delusional schizophrenia. The doctor explained that since her mid-teens Celia had struggled with an understanding of what was real and what was not. Certain things, he said, triggered or perhaps suppressed by traumat
