Daddy’s Little Princess. Cathy Glass

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Название Daddy’s Little Princess
Автор произведения Cathy Glass
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
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Издательство Биографии и Мемуары
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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       In the Beginning

       Chapter One: Close to Tears

       Chapter Two: Mr Sleep Bear

       Chapter Three: The Photographs

       Chapter Four: Inappropriate

       Chapter Five: Marianne

       Chapter Six: My Concerns Grow

       Chapter Seven: Guilty

       Chapter Eight: Wise Owl

       Chapter Nine: Sexualizing the Innocent

       Chapter Ten: Calm Before the Storm

       Chapter Eleven: Ignorance

       Chapter Twelve: Very Upset

       Chapter Thirteen: Two-Parent Family

       Chapter Fourteen: The Meeting

       Chapter Fifteen: Loyal to Abuser

       Chapter Sixteen: Are You Happy Here?

       Chapter Seventeen: Special Present

       Chapter Eighteen: Sudden Turn of Events

       Chapter Nineteen: Dr Jones

       Chapter Twenty: He’s Mine!

       Chapter Twenty-One: The Telephone Call

       Chapter Twenty-Two: Icing on the Cake

       Chapter Twenty-Three: She Must Hate Me

       Chapter Twenty-Four: A New Friend

       Chapter Twenty-Five: The Decision

       Chapter Twenty-Six: The Visit

       Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Postcard

       Chapter Twenty-Eight: Couple in the Playground

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       Exclusive sample chapter

       Cathy Glass

       Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

       About the Publisher

      To write this book – Beth’s story – I need to go back in time, to when Adrian was six and Paula was just two. I had only been fostering for a few years, and back then foster carers were given little in the way of training or support, or background information on the child. They were ‘thrown in at the deep end’ and left to get on with it, either swimming or sinking under the strain of it all. Looking back now, I shudder to think of some of the unsafe situations my family and I were placed in, and I also wonder – with the benefit of hindsight from years of fostering and training –