Please Help My Mummy Baby Felix has been abandoned, but can truth be discovered in time

A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain''s most-loved foster carer When newborn baby Felicity is found abandoned at a train station, the police launch a desperate search for her mother. It doesn''t take long for their inquiries to lead them to Emily. While baby Felicity is placed in Maggie''s care, the police and Social Services try and work out why Emily, a single mum in her thirties, who has gone through fertility treatment to get pregnant, has suddenly resorted to abandoning her much longed-for child. But it''s only when Maggie wins her trust that Emily finally reveals her secret. Can Maggie help a desperate mother and her baby reunite?

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.

You can find her on Facebook at /MaggieHartleyAuthor, where she would love to hear from you.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Hartley, Hartley Maggie
• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.02.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law
• EAN: 9781399629225
• ISBN: 978-1-399-62922-5
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions (packing): 12.8 x 19.6 x 2.2 cm
• Series: A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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