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The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy
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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning, Lucy’s mother couldn’t cope, but it wasn’t until Lucy reached...
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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN
30 YEARS OF FOSTERING
CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN
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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN
30 YEARS OF FOSTERING
CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN
Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning, Lucy’s mother couldn’t cope, but it wasn’t until Lucy reached eight years old that she was finally taken into permanent foster care.
By the time Lucy is brought to live with Cathy, she is eleven years old and severely distressed after being moved from one foster home to another. Withdrawn, refusing to eat, and three years behind in her schooling, it is thought that the damage Lucy has suffered is irreversible.
But Cathy and her two children bond with Lucy quickly and break through to her in a way no-one else has been able to, finally showing her the loving home she never believed existed. Cathy and Lucy believe they were always destined to be mother and daughter—it just took them a little while to find each other.
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ISBN: 9780008871024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 March 2027
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. She has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 100 children, of all ages and backgrounds. Cathy runs training courses on fostering for her local Social Services, and helps draft new fostering procedures and guidelines. Cathy has three teenage children of her own; one of whom, Lucy, was adopted after a long-term foster placement. Cathy has always had an interest in writing, combining fostering with occasional freelance journalism and commercial writing, usually when a particular issue stirs her passion. Before the success of Damaged she had written on health and social issues for the Guardian, the Evening Standard, Luton News, and the Hemel Gazette. She is also a published fiction writer, with poems and short stories published in a number of commercial magazines. Cathy’s books have been constantly in the best-seller charts since Damaged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.
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