Mummy, Please Don’t Leave
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4.8 • 63 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together…
The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she can instantly tell from the tone of her colleague’s voice that there’s a complicated case ahead.
And she’s right. A four-day-old baby boy called Tommy – born in prison – plus his four-year-old half-brother, the lively Seth. A month later, the very moment she gets out of prison, the boys’ mother – a 19-year-old called Jenna – also follows.
For Casey, it would it be a difficult scenario on several levels. Caring for a new born in her fifties with a pre-schooler who has spent most of his young life without boundaries tearing around her ankles, while also looking out for his drug-addicted mum who is ill-equipped to parent.
It’s an unusual situation but one that has arisen in a bid to keep the family together. Can Casey find the energy and strength needed to rise to the challenge? Casey believes she can but when baby Tommy and Seth arrive, she falters. Seth is not so much a pocket rocket as a seek and destroy missile with a whole other agenda…
About the author
Casey Watson, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer. She and her husband, Mike, look after children who are particularly troubled or damaged by their past.
Before becoming a foster carer Casey was a behaviour manager for her local comprehensive school. It was through working with these ‘difficult’ children – removed from mainstream classes for various reasons – that the idea for her future career was born.
Casey is married with two children and three grandchildren.
Customer Reviews
Mummy please don’t leave
What a good book could not put it down Casey is just so good with all three members of this family ups and downs along the way but I don’t want to spoil the outcome so just read will not disappoint
Mommy, please don't leave!
There's so much of her SELF (the Author) contained within the story- I've read most of her other books - as though there's a NEED to be recognised as a heroine and a life- saver? An inner narrative under the ongoing story of how much she has to be the saviour of all! If it's not deliberate, then fair enough! By comparison to books by similar fostering and childcare authors, it's a noticeable trait and such things should just go as unsaid! That aside, this was all at once an awful situation to read about and especially for m others who have also survived child abuse & neglect,compelling as it was, to have to keep reading ,to find out what would become of this young Mother & her children. I would recommend this especially for educational use with people considering foster care and working with damaged children. In this particular case, for the way the older child had become, it serves as proof and a warning!