Entitled The Missing, this powerful and penetrating work of non-fiction – which took the crimes of the Wests as its starting point – saw him compared to Dante and Bunyan.
O’Hagan’s book is a contemplation not only of the painful subject of missing people, but also of British society in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997, John Tiffany, then literary manager of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, now associate director of the National Theatre of Scotland, proposed adapting the book for the stage.
