Angela Hart

eBook, ePUB

The Girl With No Bedroom Door (eBook, ePUB)

A True Short Story of a Runaway Teenager and the Foster Carer Who Fought to Help Her

Beschreibung

How do you begin to rebuild the confidence of a child with no home?

The Girl With No Bedroom Door is an emotional rollercoaster of a short story from Sunday Times bestselling author and devoted foster carer Angela Hart.

Fourteen-year-old Louise has been sleeping rough after running away from her previous foster home. Unloved and unwashed, she arrives at Angela's door stripped of all self-esteem.

Wonderfully uplifting, honest and inspirational, The Girl With No Bedroom Door is the true story of Angela's quest to help Louise blossom into a confident and happy young woman. It is a testament to the difference that love and care can make in a child's life.

'I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster' - Torey Hayden, bestselling author of One Child

Discover more inspiring stories from Angela Hart in Terrified and The Girl Who Wanted to Belong.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.65MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Text und Medien in logischer Lesereihenfolge angeordnet
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

One day an advert in the local paper caught my eye: 'Foster Carers Wanted'. I knew straight away it was something I'd love to do. As a child I had a friend whose family took in foster children, and I had often asked my mother if we could do the same. I was convinced fostering kids would be like caring for flowers: if we provided the right environment, nourished them well and treated them with love and respect, everything would be rosy. We could foster for a few years, and maybe even carry on when we started our own family. Of course, it wasn't like that at all! Each child had a unique set of problems, some incredibly sad, others very shocking. We found ourselves immersed in a care system we knew nothing about, yet soon found impossible to leave.

I thrived on the challenge and rewards of being a foster mum, and when I discovered several years on that I was not able to have children of my own, I didn't miss a beat. By then I had trained as a specialist carer for teenagers with complex needs, and I have never looked back, fostering more than fifty children over the past twenty-seven years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 30
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509824076
• Artikelnr.: 44878709