Unwanted: Part 1 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

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Cathy Glass and her daughter Lucy are interviewed in today’s Daily Mirror, as the full version of Will You Love Me? goes on sale. I have two books coming out soon – one by Lisa Stone, The Gathering, out 3rd August, The other a Cathy Glass memoir, Unsafe. 31st August. I hope you enjoy them, x More success for Cathy Glass, whose book A Baby’s Cry was the 17th bestselling memoir of 2012, below Tulisa but above Justin Bieber.

For those of you who have been waiting for my next Lisa Stone thriller, The Gathering, it’s four weeks! https://rb.gy/derlw I hope you are having a good summer. Just to let you know that I have updated Happy Kids to include top tips for staying safe online. My next fostering memoir, A Family Torn Apart, will be out 1 September, and my next Lisa Stone thriller, July 2023. Thank you. xx Cathy Glass’s Can I Let You Go? remains in the charts for an eighth consecutive week - this time no 14. It’s for a little boy, Arthur, he’s just one year old. He went to an emergency carer yesterday, but she can only keep him for the weekend so he will need to be moved on Monday.’ A Family Torn Apart had retained it’s no 1 position for another week. I am pleased this story has touched so many. Thank you.

A trip to WH Smith at the weekend witnessed a score of titles from agency clients Casey Watson, Cathy Glass and Lynne Barrett-Lee on display. Thank you for agreeing to take Lara and Arthur,’ she said. ‘We were really struggling to find a mother-and-child placement.’ It is this type of sad but honest writing that helps the reader sympathize as well as empathize with the child that Cathy finds covered in blood that first night, after cutting her own wrist. She documents how eventually it became obvious that the child was in need of psychiatric help. Readers cry at the heart wrenching story of how Social Services removed Jodie from Glass’s care and had her placed in a residential unit, instead of paying for the help the child needed. This happened, in spite of the fact that Glass was able to get Jodie to open up and reveal details about the abuse her parents and others had been afflicting on her. The plot unravels like a movie when members of a pedophile ring are arrested and brought to justice. Hidden Tao formerly lived in Nigeria, but was kidnapped by his mother and taken to the UK illegally. To help support her debauched life of drinking, and drugs, his abusive mother was a prostitute. The mother cast Tayo out onto the streets after he sustained an injury and was no longer able to earn money for the woman. Based on the horrors that he suffered on the streets of Central London, Glass wrote that she had never met a child that showed the kind of strength as Tayo. He had the kind of inner resolve that she had never seen before. Continued Success

I am very pleased to say that Unsafe remains in the UK Top Ten for a fourth week. Thank you for all your kind comments. Unwanted: Part 1 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? by Cathy Glass – eBook DetailsI didn’t,’ I blurted. ‘Sorry. There seems to have been some confusion. I thought I was just having Arthur.'

Many congratulations to Cathy Glass who was third and fifth respectively in the Sunday Times bestselling memoirs of the year with Please Don’t Take My Baby, published in April, selling 48,145 copies and Will You Love Me? , published in September, selling 40,625 copies. I am delighted to say I am a grandmother three times over now. Lucy and Darren had their second child, a boy, only five days before Adrian and Kirsty had their first child, a girl. All are well. She agrees only to find out a few days later it is not just Arthur but also his mother Lara who they decide needs to be put on a parenting plan where Cathy needs to observe and help in the way of letting Lara know what she needs to do in different circumstances… Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Unwanted is Number 4 this week, Its ninth week in top ten.rough play, tripping and falling. It’s impossible to know. The judge ruled that Lara and Arthur were to be found a mother-and-child placement while they were being assessed. Your reports will form part of the assessment.’ I knew this was standard practice. ‘Assuming you can take them, of course. If you really can’t, we will have to try to fi nd somewhere else, but it’s not going to be easy.’ Lara has not had a great life .. she had been in and out of foster homes almost all her life after losing her mum at a early age .. never feeling loved always feeling a burden and unwanted! Thank you for all your support and kind words over the past year. They are much appreciated. One of the reasons I write my books is to try to raise awareness. Happy New Year and best wishes for 2022. Cathy & family. x

I am delighted that Unwanted remains in the UK top ten for another week. Thank you for all your kind comments. I write my books to raise awareness so I am pleased this book has reached so many. Just heard from my publisher that Unwanted is still in the Top Ten! Week 6! Thank you so much for making this book a success. Lara loves her son, but she puts her own needs first. Cathy must teach Lara how to care for Arthur, but will it be enough to allow her to keep him? Collins have bought World rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Where has Mummy Gone?, the story of eight-year old Melody. A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever by Cathy Glass 21 copiesThe poor child, I thought. I’d fostered children before who’d arrived with suspected non-accidental injuries, including cigarette burns, scalds, cuts and bruises, and it didn’t get any easier. But I put my concerns for him aside for now – I’d do enough worrying once he arrived – and continued with my day as planned. I spent the afternoon with Lucy and Emma and on my way home dropped in at Adrian’s. He was still working from home but was pleased to have a break. Kirsty, a teacher, was in school. My family lived locally so we were able to see each other regularly. Sadly, my dear parents, who’d been so supportive of my fostering, had now passed. It was suggested, but Lara is adamant that Arthur’s bruises were a result of him falling. The emergency foster carer took him to the hospital for a scan and there are no In this tale Cathy also comes across even more preachy, as she is fostering a mother-child placement, and the struggling mother is 21. Cathy has no shame in describing herself and her daughter monopolising the care of the child, then barating the young mother for not taking responsibility for their care, and criticising her for taking her son into bed with her in the morning after and exhausting night, or wanting some 'time off' from being a mum, which I think all parents need sometimes. I have fostered 200 kids, but Lucy’s eyes were haunted and my heart went out to her - she was destined to be my daughter” Does it? You’re approved to foster all age groups andyou have experience of mother-and-baby placements.’ She would have seen this on my file