Finding Mabel

Finding Mabel unfolds through case notes, rediscovered documents, and lived memory.

When a senior police sergeant uncovers a file that should not exist, she does what she has always done, she investigates. But the trail does not behave like a normal case. The records are incomplete. The witnesses are uncertain. The name at the centre of it all belongs to a woman who seems to stand just beyond official history.

Mabel Shirley is not missing.

She is simply unrecorded.

What begins as duty becomes pursuit, and pursuit becomes something quieter and more dangerous, recognition.