A Long Way from Home A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

    • 4.1 • 9 Ratings
    • £9.99

    • £9.99

Publisher Description

The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.

Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn’t make sense.

Until I learned what had happened. …

Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the children were incarcerated in their cots. Their large eyes stared out blankly from emaciated faces. Some were obviously disabled, others not, but all were badly undernourished. Flies circled around the broken ceiling fans and buzzed against the grids covering the windows. The only toys were a few balls and a handful of building bricks, but no child played with them. The silence was deafening and unnatural. Not one of the thirty or so infants cried, let alone spoke.

About the author

Cathy has been a foster carer for over 30 years, during which time she has looked after more than 150 children, of all ages and backgrounds. She has three teenage children of her own; one of whom was adopted after a long-term foster placement. The name Cathy Glass is a pseudonym.

GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
DF
DeNica Fairman
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:30
hr min
RELEASED
2018
22 February
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins
SIZE
413
MB

Listeners Also Bought

Cruel to Be Kind Cruel to Be Kind
2017
Can I Let You Go? Can I Let You Go?
2016
I Miss Mummy I Miss Mummy
2014
Innocent Innocent
2019
The Silent Cry The Silent Cry
2016
Finding Stevie Finding Stevie
2019