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

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In this newest memoir, Cathy Glass looks after two young children after their older sister makes allegations of sexual abuse against their father. Cathy navigates interactions with unpredictable parents, healing two broken-hearted children, maintaining her relationships with her own family, and searching for the truth in a messy and dire situation; all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This memoir toys with the readers emotions as they try to find the truth within this family's chaos. For a third week running Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Neglected is at no 8 , it’s sixth week in the top ten. Read for book club. I would not have read it otherwise. Not good literature or story. I man just look at the cover.

I don't like to perpetuate the idea that false reports occur, because the system makes it difficult enough for children and women to be believed as it is. But this story was gut-wrenching. In hindsight I wonder if the truth would ever have come out if Angie and Polly hadn’t lived with me. I’m not saying I’m a better foster carer than others, but splitting up the girls from their older sister allowed them to disclose what was really going on. However, I’m jumping ahead of myself. It was Tuesday afternoon when Joy Philips, my supervising social worker (SSW), telephoned and their story began. Cathy Glass is a British writer of non-fiction and ' inspirational' fiction. Cathy has written memoirs about the children she has fostered, many of whom had suffered abuse. Her latest book An Innocent Baby was released on 16 September 2021 telling the story of Darcey-May and Haylea and "Neglected" was released on 17 February 2022. "A family torn apart" was released in September 2022. I hope you are having a good summer. Just to let you know that I have updated Happy Kids to include top tips for staying safe online. My next fostering memoir, A Family Torn Apart, will be out 1 September, and my next Lisa Stone thriller, July 2023. Thank you. xxMore success for Cathy Glass, whose book A Baby’s Cry was the 17th bestselling memoir of 2012, below Tulisa but above Justin Bieber. I really enjoyed reading this book, no spoilers obviously but nice for a happy ending. Laura Facebook Cathy Glass’s A Family Torn Apart remains in the top ten for a seventh week – this time at number 10. A Family Torn Apart had retained it’s no 1 position for another week. I am pleased this story has touched so many. Thank you. Since other Goodreaders have indicated that the book is not up to Glass’ usual standard I will withhold recommendations until after reading some of her earlier books.

The girls were inconsolable for days, not helped by only being allowed to see their mother online because of covid restrictions and concerns that she may frighten them into not telling the truth. 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. 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. Glass used to work for as a civil servant but left to start a family. The author decided to foster a child after trying unsuccessfully for a baby with her husband; she had seen an advert in her local paper seeking a foster home for a girl and applied as a foster carer. [3] Writing career [ edit ] Full Book Name: A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for everThe name "Cathy Glass" is a pseudonym. The author writes under a pen name due to the sensitive nature of her source material. The names of the children she writes about are likewise altered. [ citation needed] Fostering and parenting expertise [ edit ] Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Neglected has gone straight to no 1 on its first part week sales. Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Too Scared to Tell. Her fostering memoir, Will You Love Me?, published in September 2013. [5] tells the story of her adopted daughter. [6] '

Soon. This afternoon. Their father is still with the police but he will be bailed later and is returning to the family home to live. The children need to move before then. The girls’ mother is standing by him.’ Yes. Their social worker, Fatima Hadden, will tell you more, but the girls’ mother doesn’t believe her daughter’s claims and is siding with her husband.’ There is someone who can take Ashleigh if we can’t keep them together. She’s a single carer who has just returned to fostering after a long break so doesn’t feel up to taking all three girls as her first placement.’ Many congratulations to Cathy Glass who was third and fifth respectively in the Sunday Times bestselling memoirs of the year with Please Don’t Take My Baby, published in April, selling 48,145 copies and Will You Love Me? , published in September, selling 40,625 copies.

Glass has worked as a foster career for more than 20 years, during which time she has fostered more than 50 children. Her fostering memoirs tell the stories of some of the children who came in to her care, many of whom had suffered abuse. At the start of August I had just said goodbye to Jamey, whom I’d fostered since before Christmas. I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was asked to take another child or children and I steeled myself, wondering what their sorrowful story would be. In over 25 years of fostering, I’d looked after many children who had suffered abuse and neglect, but no two children’s stories are ever the same, and that was certainly true of the girls who arrived next.