For most parents, curling up on the sofa to watch a box set with their teenager is an everyday occurrence, barely noteworthy. Yet, as Tracy Glover snuggles up with her 14-year-old daughter Eliska and the pair put on Gilmore Girls, she can hardly believe it. In fact, she treasures every moment because, for five long and lonely years, the pair were torn apart after Eliska’s father Jarek* fled with her to his home country of the Czech Republic.
‘It was a living hell,’ Tracy, 48, from Bradford, remembers. ‘In the early days, I kept thinking it was a nightmare, or that he would