Neglected: Scared, hungry and alone, Jamey craves affection
By (Author) Cathy Glass
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
17th February 2022
17th February 2022
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
True stories of survival of abuse and injustice
Adoption and fostering: advice and issues
Adoption and fostering
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Child welfare and youth services
Family psychology
Family law: children
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
362.733092
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
240g
Little Jamey, 2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.
The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partying.
When he first arrives with foster carer Cathy Glass, he is scared, hungry and withdrawn, craving the affection he has been denied for so long. He is small for his age and unsteady on his feet a result of being left for long periods in his cot.
Cathy and her family find Jamey very easy to love, but as he settles in and makes progress, a new threat emerges. Coronavirus and lockdown change everything.
Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. She has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 100 children, of all ages and backgrounds. Cathy runs training courses on fostering for her local Social Services, and helps draft new fostering procedures and guidelines. Cathy has three teenage children of her own; one of whom, Lucy, was adopted after a long-term foster placement. Cathy has always had an interest in writing, combining fostering with occasional freelance journalism and commercial writing, usually when a particular issue stirs her passion. Before the success of Damaged she had written on health and social issues for the Guardian, the Evening Standard, Luton News, and the Hemel Gazette. She is also a published fiction writer, with poems and short stories published in a number of commercial magazines. Cathys books have been constantly in the best-seller charts since Damaged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.