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Source ISBN: 9780008341985
Ebook Edition © September 2019 ISBN: 9780008341992
Version: 2019-06-03
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 Acknowledgements
6 Chapter One: Traumatized
7 Chapter Two: Chaos
8 Chapter Three: Disturbed Night
9 Chapter Four: Good Mother
10 Chapter Five: Distressing
11 Chapter Six: I Want Mummy
12 Chapter Seven: Sick
13 Chapter Eight: Need to Know?
14 Chapter Nine: Sick Again
15 Chapter Ten: Bonding
16 Chapter Eleven: Exasperated and Worried
17 Chapter Twelve: Play Nicely
18 Chapter Thirteen: Not Responsible
19 Chapter Fourteen: Hospital
20 Chapter Fifteen: A Breakthrough?
21 Chapter Sixteen: My Fault
22 Chapter Seventeen: Accused
23 Chapter Eighteen: Leaving
24 Chapter Nineteen: Shocking
25 Chapter Twenty: Beyond Belief
26 Chapter Twenty-One: No Contact
27 Chapter Twenty-Two: Love the Children
28 Chapter Twenty-Three: Disclosure
29 Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wonder of Christmas
30 Chapter Twenty-Five: Aneta
31 Chapter Twenty-Six: Permanent?
32 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Judge’s Decision
33 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Saying Goodbye
34 Afterword
35 Suggested topics for reading-group discussion
36 Cathy Glass
37 If you loved this book …
39 Praise for Cathy Glass
40 About the Publisher
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