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Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they want their mummy and daddy, and are inconsolable for days. They appear to have been well looked after and the family has never come to the attention of the social services before. Her next three titles, Hidden, Cut and The Saddest Girl in the World, were similarly successful, all reaching the bestseller charts. nevertheless, i appreciated her writing style and insights into fostering as usual and it was nice to see that the children were indeed not victims. Way too much detail and the whole time you’re wanting to get to the end to find out the truth but mainly just to get it over with.
Maybe it was the constant reference to covid it’s restrictions and their compliance or jumping to conclusions whilst also saying she didn’t judge? There will always be uncertainty about what action to take when a child discloses abuse, but this case demonstrates that there should be a thorough investigation before drastic action is taken which can ruin lives. On top of that, this was written during the height of Covid, so there's constant talk about restrictions and social distancing and hand-washing, and I don't think an editor ever looked at this because there was a lot of repetition and grammatical issues that an editor would have caught in an instant. I feel like this is such an unusual event to happen, and it was honestly difficult to read about a story where the "child" (a fourteen year old) is actually at fault as opposed to the adult.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. in reading about English criminals one comes across many who have been raised in and out of a foster care system which in practice comes across as virtually identical to the CDSS. Her work is strongly identified with both the True Life Stories and Inspirational Memoirs genres, and she has also written a parenting guide to bringing up children, Happy Kids, and a novel, The Girl in the Mirror, based on a true story.
Cathy's casual writing style allows the reader to feel as if they are sitting across from her listening to her tell the story. 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. 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. I just felt that I needed to say that as a reminder and I would have liked for that to have been mentioned by Cathy to her readers in the epilogue along with the acknowledgment that false allegations occur.In my teens I began writing short stories, articles, a few radio plays, and entering writing competitions. But gradually they began to settle and as they did they talked more of life at home where there were a lot of arguments between Ashleigh and their parents. 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. This book in particular was hard to read due to the subject matter, and the intense distress it clearly caused to all family members involved.