He dedicated The Unforgotten Coat to the child who inspired the story: a Mongolian schoolgirl whose family were taken from their home in a midnight raid by the immigration authorities......
The Unforgotten Coat was inspired by the true story of a Mongolian girl called Misheel who Cottrell Boyce met while doing a reading at a primary school.
When she was taken in the night by the immigration authorities to be deported, one of the things her classmates were most worried about was that Misheel had left her coat behind, as they knew how cold it was in Mongolia. It was an image, Cottrell Boyce said, that haunted him......
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