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Cruel to Be Kind: Saying No Can Save a Child's Life

Cruel to Be Kind: Saying No Can Save a Child's Life 1

by Cathy Glass
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Publication Date: 05/09/2017
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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.

Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max has moved in. Cathy and her family are shocked when they first meet Max. But his social worker isn't the only one in denial; his whole family are too.

ISBN:
9780008259556
9780008259556
Category:
True stories of heroism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
198.42x128.57x20.62mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Cathy Glass

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.Cathy’s books have been constantly in the best-seller charts since Damanged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.

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Age groups: children Adoption Coping with personal problems Social work Memoirs Gender studies: women Social welfare & social services Adoption & fostering Biography: general True stories of heroism
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Cruel to Be Kind I love this book can’t wait for her to write more books

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