Review - Can I Let You Go? by Cathy Glass

Title: Can I Let You Go?

Author: Cathy Glass

Pages: 312

Release Date: September 4^th 2016

Format: Paperback

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Synopsis: Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child.

Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother’s alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnerable, and normally lives with her grandparents, both of whom have mobility problems. Cathy and her children welcome Faye into their home and hearts. The care plan is for Faye to stay with Cathy until after the birth when she will return home and the baby will go for adoption. Given that Faye never goes out alone it is something of a mystery how she ever became pregnant and Faye says it’s a secret.

To begin with Faye won’t acknowledge she is pregnant or talk about the changes in her body as she worries it will upset her grandparents, but after her social worker assures her she can talk to Cathy she opens up. However, this leads to Faye realizing just how much she will lose and she changes her mind and says she wants to keep her baby.

Is it possible Faye could learn enough to parent her child? Cathy believes it is, and Faye’s social worker is obliged to give Faye the chance.

My Review: Faye’s story is truly heart breaking. Faye is a very sweet, caring 24 year old who with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and she’s pregnant, and its Cathy’s job to help Faye prepare to give her baby up for adoption while dealing with the death of her father.

Faye’s mum died when she was young and her grandparents have been looking after her since but they aren’t in good health due to their age and they cannot help Faye to look after her baby. Due to her disability Faye is very childlike, she spends time between living at her grandparents, visiting the horse stables and going to a day care centre so the father of the baby is a mystery as she is never alone.

Faye has a daily routine so that she knows what she is meant to be doing all times of the day. At first Faye won’t speak about the baby and is adamant that she isn’t keeping it but Cathy takes her to all her appointments and talks to the midwives for her but later she decides that she wants to keep the baby so Cathy and her social worker helps her to prepare for looking after a baby and get her into a special mother and baby unit once she has had the baby.

Cathy’s books are always inspirational and you can tell that she is a caring woman who does anything she can to help the children that she fosters.

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