Groomed to be a Bride - Can Maggie protect a vulnerable young girl from nightmares of her

''Mama is gone and I cry every night.'' When a terrified young girl is discovered hiding in the back of a lorry, she is quickly taken into the care of social services. Arriving on the doorstep of foster carer Maggie Hartley, she is painfully thin, bruised and unable to speak a word of English. What atrocities has she escaped to bring her here? Woken each night by the screams of Halima''s nightmares, Maggie is desperate to reach this damaged young girl. But without a shared language, she fears that she may never uncover the truth behind her terror. Can Maggie help Halima recover from the horrors she has endured, and help her build a new life for herself? Or will Halima forever be haunted by the ghosts of her past? A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years. ''A gripping story'' 5* Amazon reader review

About the author

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Hartley, Hartley Maggie
• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781409197430
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-9743-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Series: A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse, Terrorism, armed struggle, Iraq War, Adoption and fostering, Child abuse