Cathy Glass

La nueva novela de Cathy Glass, autora superventas del Sunday Times y The New York Times Cuando Reece, un niño de siete años, llega a casa de Cathy en régimen de acogida, ya ha pasado por otras cuatr

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass

When Reece arrives at Cathy s door aged 7 years old he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks As the details of his short life emerge it becomes clear that to help him Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet The latest title from the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged Reece is the last of six siblings to be fostered Having been in care for four months his aggressive and disruptive behaviour has seen him passed from carer to carer Although only 7 he has been excluded from school and bites people so often that his mother calls him Sharky Cathy wants to find the answers for Reece s distressing behaviour but he has been sworn to secrecy by his mother and will not tell them anything As the social worker prepares for the final hearing he finds five different files on Reece s family and is incredulous that he had not been removed from them as a baby When the darkest of family secrets is revealed to Cathy Reece s behaviour suddenly starts to make sense and together they can begin to rebuild his life

ONE REMARKABLE WOMANOVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERINGCARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDRENTayo arrives at Cathy s with only the clothes he stands up in He has been brought to her by the police but he is calm polite and very well spoken and not at all like the children she normally fosters The social worker gives Cathy the forms which should contain Tayo s history but apart from his name and age it is blank Tayo has no past Tayo is an invisible child kidnapped from his loving father in Nigeria and brought illegally to the UK by his drink and drugs dependent prostitute mother where he is put to work in a sweatshop in Central London When he sustains an injury and is no longer earning he is cast out When Cathy takes Tayo to school he points out a dozen different addresses where he has stayed in the last six months often being left alone Tayo lies and manipulates situations to his own advantage and Cathy has to be continually on guard Tayo s social worker searches all computer databases but there is no record of Tayo he has only attended school for three terms and has never seen a doctor He and his mother have been evading the authorities by living underground With his mother recently released from prison Tayo is desperate to live with his father in Nigeria b