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THE WINNER OFTHE 2024 ROBINSON NEW VOICES AWARDAnyone who has experienced bullying, coercive control or narcissistic abuse may know what it is like to be fearful, anxious, angry, confused, guilt-ridden, grief-stricken, self-doubting and so much more. It can feel like a...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2026-04-02
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'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl' Chelsea Bieker'A masterpiece' Carmen Maria Machado----You want to know who did it, but that was never the question. Or, it was never the right one.Birdie Chang doesn't know much about Whidbey Island, only that it is...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2026-03-12
ePub
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'They made me do it, it wasn't my fault!'When three brothers come to live with Maggie, she knows that it's going to be challenging. They are all already struggling with rejection after their dad abandoned them, their mum having died several years before.While...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2026-02-26
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
ePub
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'Don't leave me here! Please, don't leave me.'What possesses a mum to kidnap her own child? That's what Maggie asks herself when she's asked to foster 13-year-old Saskia, the subject of a bitter custody battle between her parents. When Saskia's mum Rosa fears the courts...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2025-08-14
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
ePub
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'It's ok, Felix, don't worry. We're going to find your mummy.'When newborn baby Felix is found abandoned at a train station, the police launch a desperate search for his mum. It doesn't take long for their inquiries to lead them to Emily.While baby Felix is placed in...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2025-02-13
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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Her sister was in danger. Jazmin knew there was only one option if she wanted to make sure she was safe.'Come on, Pearl,' she whispered. 'Let's get you out of here.'Jazmin was only thirteen when she was taken into care, after asking to be removed from her mum herself....
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2024-11-07
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already been rejected by three different foster carers. After hitting a teacher at his school and causing mayhem since he arrived...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2024-08-15
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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Because I Love Him by Ashlee Donohue is a memoir of privileged insight into strong family ties, the intricacies of relationships and the unspoken expectations within urban Aboriginal communities. This is a very personal account of love, loss, addiction, motherhood and...
Editeur :
Magabala Books
Parution :
2024-01-05
ePub
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The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2023-03-21
ePub
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'Get ready for a roller-coaster ride with this tense and twisty story of two women with dark secrets' HEATOne mother on the run. A safe place to hide. But you can't escape the past forever . . .Faye is 39 and single. She's terrified she may never have the one thing she...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2022-12-14
ePub
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Coercive control is a severe form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children worldwide. It involves a perpetrator using a range of tactics to intimidate, humiliate, degrade, exploit, isolate and control a partner or family member. Some coercive control...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-28
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'The next round in Billy's fight is pain-racked, frank and reflective . . . an inspiring piece from a man who's been to hell and back and has the scars to prove it'JOE COLE'Brutally honest, dark and disturbing. A book that tells of the reality of drugs and a failing...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2021-06-03
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'My heart felt heavy with sadness for these two little girls.'Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2021-04-15
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
ePub
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"When my parents signed me up to Trojan Swimming Club, they had no idea of the evil behind Gibney's interest in me. As a thirteen-year-old, who knew nothing but kindness and love, I was ill-equipped to understand what was happening as he insidiously dominated my...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2021-02-18
ePub
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As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood, you may find that its effects continue to haunt you - bringing guilt and shame, perhaps depression and anxiety, eating disorders, troubled relationships and sexual difficulties. But although you can't alter the past, you can...
Editeur :
Sheldon Press
Parution :
2020-08-06
ePub
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'What a great resource for understanding and managing PTSD' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A profoundly supportive and essential method for healing from trauma and grief' Wendy Stern, Founder and Executive Director, The Grief Support...
Editeur :
Sheldon Press
Parution :
2020-07-09
ePub
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'He said he loved me.'Fourteen-year-old Hannah comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley after her mum pleads with Social Services to take her into care, unable to cope with her daughter anymore. Previously a good student, a loving daughter and sister, Hannah is...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2020-04-16
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
ePub
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Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ricardo...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-12-12
ePub
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Victim. Prostitute. Gangster’s Wife. Survivor.Tara grew up in squalor on the island of Alderney. When she was only four, she was sexually abused by one of her mother’s many lovers, a horror that continued for five long years. As a teenager, desperate to escape the toxic...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-07-11
ePub
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