I Miss Mummy By Cathy Glass
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Alice just wants to go home!
Sunday Times best-selling author Cathy Glass returns with tear-jerking tug-of-love fostering memoir
Foster carer Cathy is thrown straight into a nightmare when her latest placement, four-year-old Alice, is snatched by her drug-dependent, mentally-ill mother.
After three anxious days, little Alice is found by the police, safe but traumatised. Like a doll, so young and vulnerable, she immediately finds her place in Cathy’s family. She talks openly about her mummy, who she clearly loves dearly, and how happy she was living with her maternal grandparents before being put into care. Alice has clearly been very well-looked after and Cathy can’t understand why she couldn’t stay where she was.
It emerges the grandparents, in their sixties, are considered too old and so social services plan to relocate Alice with her father and his new wife. The grandparents are distraught – Alice has never known her father, and her grandparents claim he is a violent drug dealer.
Desperate to help Alice find the happy home she deserves, Cathy is drawn deeper into a harrowing tug-of-love where her parenting skills are tested in many new ways. Finally, questions are asked about Alice’s father suitability, and his true colours begin to emerge.
Cathy Glass is a bestselling British author, freelance writer and foster carer. She has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 50 children. Her first fostering memoir, Damaged, became a Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller upon its release in 2007. To date, her books have sold 0.7 million copies. She writes under a pseudonym. For more information, go to: www.cathyglass.co.uk
