Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True was named book of the year. The British author's thriller follows two young women whose chance meeting at a local pub has dark consequences.
In 2002, more than 18 years after Ms MacPherson's father first called the police, the archbishop's letter was made public.In a landmark ruling, it was one of thousands of pages of documents that a Boston court ordered the Catholic Church to release.
A local newspaper, The Boston Globe, had, for the first time, begun to seriously challenge the institution's power in the city, by placing the stories of victims on its front pages.Soon, hundreds had come forward and their lawyers were fighting in court to prise open decades of internal records relating to the sexual abuse of children.The Church had tried to argue that the First Amendment protection for freedom of religion entitled it to keep those files secret.
The order to unseal them led to a watershed moment.Contacted at the time, Peter Kanchong denied the allegations.
"Do you have evidence? Do you have witnesses?" he told the Boston Globe, who found him still living in the area.
Ms MacPherson, however, was one of more than 500 victims who won an $85m civil case for the abuse they'd suffered at the hands of dozens of priests.A few years ago, with globalisation still on the rise, that might not have mattered. It does now.
Grangemouth has two similarities. One is that it has Chinese owners. PetroChina has a 50% stake, the other half held by Ineos.One argument for taking over Scunthorpe is that Chinese owners have an interest in making the UK dependent on imports, when China has the biggest over-supply for exports in the world.
An argument can also be made that it could be in the strategic interests of an unfriendly China that the UK lacks oil refining capacity and has to rely on imports. But as China is a net importer of oil and gas, it's less obvious that China gains from that.The other similarity is that both industries are going through a difficult transition. The steel industry is a notoriously big polluter. The product will still be needed in future, so either it switches to cleaner electricity or its carbon output is offset. Neither is simple.