Girl Alone
Joss Came Home from School to Discover Her Father’s Suicide. Angry and Hurting, She’s out of Control.
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2015
Summary
Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father’s suicide. She’s never gotten over it.
This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father’s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then her mother remarries and Joss bitterly resents her step-father who abuses her mentally and physically.
Cathy takes Joss under her wing but will she ever be able to get through to the warm-hearted girl she sees glimpses of undern…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008138257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008138257 |
| Author: | Cathy Glass |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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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 Damaged was published in 2007, having sold over 2 million copies across her titles worldwide.
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