"My cousin and I sat in her lounge room, my hands shaking. 'Where do you think he'd go?' she asked. 'I don't know.'
'Where would you go?' 'I have no idea - I really can't imagine.' 'No, neither can I.' Silence."
Every eighteen minutes in Australia, a person goes missing. On 14 November 2001, twenty-six-year-old Glenn Flint walked out of the family home. He took nothing with him - not even his much-needed medication - and has not been seen since.
'Every Eighteen Minutes' is the story of his sister Ellen's, and her family's, subsequent futile efforts to locate him. Since he was eighteen years old, Glenn had suffered from epilepsy and later, depression. Even so, his disappearance was sudden and unexpected.
Ellen Flint's powerful writing is thoroughly compelling. She takes the reader through her journey of intense sadness and grief in a raw and honest fashion. She recounts her own despair and resulting depression with candour, and tells us how she fought her own way back to some degree of acceptance of life without Glenn.
