You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir

Jeanne's ex-husband, Klaus, takes their children away for a weekend in 1977, never returning. Jeanne's search for legal support reveals little help, and she reflects on her tumultuous marriage. The kidnapping becomes a doorway to unexpected strength, and Jeanne must find her children and steal them back.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2021
Publisher: She Writes Press

In 1977,Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband,Klaus,tells her he has gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. However, Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again.

The next four months are filled with agony, despair, and anger as Jeanne seeks legal support but quickly learns that federal parental kidnapping laws will offer her little help. She reflects on her tumultuous ten-year marriage to Klaus and the unsettling events that followed their divorce. A product of the patriarchal culture of the 1950s, Jeanne's nice-girl mentality is being tested and reshaped by the feminist movement of the 1970s, and she finds that the kidnapping ultimately becomes a doorway to unexpected strength.

You'll Never Find Us is the story of a young mother coming into her own power, regardless of past mistakes, bad judgment, and fears; the story of a woman who realizes she must tap into her newfound resilience and courage to find her stolen children—and steal them back.

Weight: 384g
Dimension: 140 x 346 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647421557