A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever

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Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they want their mummy and daddy, and are inconsolable for days. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I just hope that the readers don’t think that is the norm and shy away from these important roles out of fear. i feel like there was not enough of a plot to warrant a novel- it’s literally about a girl who falsely accuses her stepfather of raping her causing herself and her sisters to temporarily enter foster care.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. g. "Joy wasn't Janet's SSW" when written in context, implies strongly that Joy was doing a good job for Cathy and that Janet needed similar support but wasn't getting it. The discussion Q's seemed slightly insensitive, as of course children's allegations should be taken serious. And in the end poor Ashliegh is abandoned by both of her parents and left in foster care permanently for telling a lie?As is my custom I looked up the author, Cathy Glass, before starting the book and to my dismay I learned that she’s ground out dozens of what looked like tearjerkers about pitiful foster kids who end up living happily ever after. a lot of people complained about the covid references- personally i didn’t mind them and i found that they were relevant to the setting. Another great book by this author, this was a really hard book to read given the truth of the story. Yes, I appreciate some people are new to her books but most are not and we don't need to read it in every book.

I didn’t feel it was one of Cathy’s best books to be honest, and it didn’t seem like the same person had written it! The whole book made me angry and it was clear from the beginning she had made her mind up then went sweet with him at the end. It's hard to give a Cathy glass book anything but 5 stars but as other reviews have said this book feels different then her other ones. Her fostering memoirs tell the stories of some of the children who came in to her care, many of whom had suffered abuse. They loved their mummy and daddy and seemed to have been well cared for, but their older half-sister Ashleigh, had accused their father of raping her.It was the first time reading one of Cathy's, and I found her writing style to be somewhat simple, which in turn made it difficult to follow. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partying.

She is able to perfectly capture and balance the perspectives of herself as the foster carer, her children, the foster children, and the foster children's families. It's making me not want to continue with the book, especially as the last few stories have felt lacklustre and like she's running out of content. This case took place during the coronovirus pandemic, and the guidelines about social distancing and mask wearing made a considerable impact for the workers and children involved. I suspect there are issues of consent, which is why she publishes under a pseudonym and changes the names of her charges and their families, but she provides lots of very specific details about the family, regardless.In my teens I began writing short stories, articles, a few radio plays, and entering writing competitions.

Angie, aged 5, and her sister Polly, aged 4, were utterly distraught when they were removed from home by social workers and brought to live with me. Glass has worked as a foster career for more than 20 years, during which time she has fostered more than 50 children.Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to talk about what has happened to his family, but he just won’t engage. The story Cathy tells keeps you captivated from the very first page right through until the last page.