Cathy Glass’s latest inspirational memoir for Harper Collins, Saving Danny, has had a great review in the Daily Mirror. For an update on Lara please see the one for Unwanted Children but – to avoid spoilers – only after you’ve read the book please. The continued success that Cathy Glass experienced following her first two books is evident in popular titles like: “Cut” and

How are you?’ Joy asked. It wasn’t simply a polite question. The pandemic was still ongoing so she needed to know. Suspected non-accidental injuries,’ Joy said, and my heart went out to him. ‘His mother has been struggling for a while. She went to the doctor about herself, but the doctor noticed bruises on the child’s face. He examined the child and found more bruises on his legs and body. His mother is denying harming him and says he is accident-prone.’ Tao formerly lived in Nigeria, but was kidnapped by his mother and taken to the UK illegally. To help support her debauched life of drinking, and drugs, his abusive mother was a prostitute. The mother cast Tayo out onto the streets after he sustained an injury and was no longer able to earn money for the woman. Based on the horrors that he suffered on the streets of Central London, Glass wrote that she had never met a child that showed the kind of strength as Tayo. He had the kind of inner resolve that she had never seen before. Continued Success I love reading about fostering. I was in foster homes before I was adopted. Cathy Glass is a wonderful and understanding foster care. Goodreads 5*

Having said goodbye, I spent the rest of the afternoon hoping I’d done the right thing in agreeing to look after Lara and her son, and getting their bedrooms ready. Now Adrian and Lucy had left home I had the space; the larger bedroom would be Lara’s and the cot would go in the smaller room next door. I assumed the social worker wanted them separated because of the suspected nonaccidental injuries. If they were sharing a room it would be more difficult to monitor what was happening at night. Lara would be expected to do all the caring for her child, so if, for example, he woke at night she would tend to him, although I would be on hand. Part of the foster carer’s role in a mother-and-child placement is observation and record keeping, as well as giving support where necessary. Just heard from my publisher that Unwanted is still in the Top Ten! That’s week 8! Thank you so much for making this book a success. Sometimes it felt like a never-ending stream of children coming through my door who for various reasons couldn’t live at home. Yet despite fostering over 150 children since I began all those years ago, I always gave each child the love and care they needed and deserved. My daughter Lucy arrived as a foster child and became my adopted daughter. Other children have returned home or gone to forever families.

Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Neglected has gone straight to no 1 on its first part week sales. Cathy Glass’s Can I Let You Go? remains in the charts for an eighth consecutive week - this time no 14. Lara has not had a great life .. she had been in and out of foster homes almost all her life after losing her mum at a early age .. never feeling loved always feeling a burden and unwanted! Initially I thought all her stories were true, and very much set in the past. However her writing is now describing fostering during the pandemic, so I feel like these stories cannot possibly be true, and how horrid for the fostered individuals to have their dirty laundry aired in such a way.

How I Found the Agency

Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir A Long Way From Home, the story of Anna originally brought up in a state orphanage. I didn’t,’ I blurted. ‘Sorry. There seems to have been some confusion. I thought I was just having Arthur.'

I am delighted that Unwanted remains in the UK top ten for another week. Thank you for all your kind comments. I write my books to raise awareness so I am pleased this book has reached so many. Thank you for agreeing to take Lara and Arthur,’ she said. ‘We were really struggling to find a mother-and-child placement.’ Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cruel To Be Kind, Cathy Glass’s account of fostering six year old Max. Lara loves her son, but she puts her own needs first. Cathy must teach Lara how to care for Arthur, but will it be enough to allow her to keep him? Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.

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I am delighted to say I am a grandmother three times over now. Lucy and Darren had their second child, a boy, only five days before Adrian and Kirsty had their first child, a girl. All are well.