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Hi, my name is Giles Tremlettut. I'm the author of three abandoned children, two missing parents,

and a 40-year mystery published in March 23. So to sum up, this story is about three children,

three siblings, two boys and a girl, aged two, four and five, who were abandoned at a railway station in Barcelona in 1984.

And it's about their attempts, many decades later, to discover who their parents were and why on earth they were abandoned.

So I was first drawn to this story because it's such a bizarre tale.

Why didn't these children know who they were?

They didn't even know their surnames. They didn't know where they lived. They'd never been to school. Why did no one come looking for them? Three siblings, but no parents, no family, no teachers. Nobody came looking for them. And finally, because, well, effectively, they're three orphans.

And we've always been interested in orphans,

whether it's Harry Potter or Mowgli or whoever else.

So in 2026, we're three years on.

I'm still very much in contact with Elvira Moral, who is the girl in this story and the one who's

leading the search. And they have found out more about their backstory. I'm not going to fill that

in here because it's now the subject of a Disney four-part documentary series.

But, you know, there is more information out there.

And I hope that going forward,

Saldon, and I work probably on a book together,

there will be more.

So the title of that series on the Disney platform in Spanish is Abandonados.

In English, I'm not sure what it's going to be, presumably abandoned.

And the Disney series will be on the Disney Plus platform, certainly here in Spain.

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