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Nobody’s Son

All Alex Ever Wanted Was a Family of His Own
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i>Nobody's Son by Cathy Glass is a poignant true story about Alex, a troubled young boy in foster care. Heartbreaking yet hopeful, the book follows his journey as he struggles to overcome a difficult past and search for a place he can truly call home. Cathy Glass, as the foster carer, provides a compassionate and insightful narrative about resilience, love, and the significance of family connections.
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This book may appeal to you if you're drawn to heartfelt and inspiring memoirs about fostering and the profound difference caring adults can make in a child's life. Written with compassion and insight, it offers a moving account of resilience and the transformative power of love and support.

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Nobody’s Son

Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows.

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Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows.

When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’s already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler, and he’ll only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive family. But the present carers are expecting a baby, and the foster mother isn’t coping, so Alex goes to live with Cathy.

He settles easily and is very much looking forward to having a forever family of his own. The introductions and move to his adoptive family go well. But Alex is only with them for a week when problems begin. What happens next is both shocking and upsetting, and calls into question the whole adoption process.

Nobody’s Son by Cathy Glass is a poignant exploration of the foster care and adoption systems, seen through the eyes of those who experience them firsthand.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008187569

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 336

About the Author

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 Damaged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.

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