The Disappeared is a 2015 novel by the English writer Roger Scruton. It tells the story of a schoolgirl from Northern England who has become the victim of an immigrant child grooming gang. Through clues in her essay on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, one of her teachers learns about the situation and tries to find a way to help her. The title refers to victims of human trafficking as well as what Scruton describes as "the disappearance from our society of the old ideas of authority, the old religion, the old sense of belonging". Scruton based the novel on his experiences from the Ray Honeyford affair in 1984, which he combined with details from the case of the Oxford sex gang. Source: Wikipedia (en)