Where has mummy gone? : a young girl and a mother who no longer knows her /
by Glass, Cathy.
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BookPublisher: London : Harper Element, 2018Description: 310 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780008305468 (pbk.) :; 0008305463 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 362.733 GLASubject(s): Glass, Cathy | Foster home care -- Great Britain | Foster children -- Great Britain | Family and Relationships | Family and RelationshipsSummary: The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about Melody's terrible childhood, she is sure she's heard it all before. But it isn't long before she feels there is more going on than she or the social services are aware of. Although Melody is angry at having to leave her mother, as many children coming into care are, she also worries about her obsessively - far more than is usual. Amanda, Melody's mother, is also angry and takes it out on Cathy at contact, which again is something Cathy has experienced before. Yet there is a lost and vulnerable look about Amanda, and Cathy starts to see why Melody worries about her and feels she needs looking after.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 362.733 GLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 24/07/2023 | 002960379X |
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The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about Melody's terrible childhood, she is sure she's heard it all before. But it isn't long before she feels there is more going on than she or the social services are aware of. Although Melody is angry at having to leave her mother, as many children coming into care are, she also worries about her obsessively - far more than is usual. Amanda, Melody's mother, is also angry and takes it out on Cathy at contact, which again is something Cathy has experienced before. Yet there is a lost and vulnerable look about Amanda, and Cathy starts to see why Melody worries about her and feels she needs looking after.
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