Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Epigraph

Prologue

PART ONE

Chapter One: Desperate

Chapter Two: Escape

Chapter Three: Concerned

Chapter Four: Too Late to Help

Chapter Five: Family

Chapter Six: Neglect

Chapter Seven: No Chance to Say Goodbye

Chapter Eight: A Good Friend

Chapter Nine: ‘I Hate You All!’

PART TWO

Chapter Ten: ‘A Family of My Own’

Chapter Eleven: Lucy

Chapter Twelve: No Appetite

Chapter Thirteen: ‘Do Our Best’

Chapter Fourteen: Control

Chapter Fifteen: ‘I Don’t Want Her Help!’

Chapter Sixteen: Testing the Boundaries

Chapter Seventeen: Progress

Chapter Eighteen: ‘I’d Rather Have You’

Chapter Nineteen: Happy Holiday

Chapter Twenty: ‘Will You Love Me?’

Chapter Twenty-One: ‘No One Wants Me’

Chapter Twenty-Two: A New Year, a New Social Worker

Chapter Twenty-Three: ‘She’s OK for a Girl’

Chapter Twenty-Four: Special Day

Chapter Twenty-Five: Thunderstorm

Chapter Twenty-Six: ‘I’ll Try My Best’

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Special Love

Cathy Glass

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