Insomnia

Hundreds of phone calls, abusive messages, telling the police her children had been abducted, breaking into her husband’s house and wrecking it. Maybe it was those supermarket kids. ‘If anything does happen then report it to the police rather than reacting. Insomnia burns calories, it seems, along with car crashes and accusations of murder. ‘Come here.’ His tone is cold. A nurse pops her head round the door. ‘A policewoman is on her way in case Phoebe wakes up again.