Review - Cut by Cathy Glass

 

Title: Cut

Author: Cathy Glass

Pages: 323

Release Date: January 19^th 2009

Format: Paperback

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Synopsis: Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her.

Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn’s outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.

 

During the first night, Cathy awoke to see Dawn looming above Cathy’s baby’s cot, her eyes staring and blank. She sleepwalks – which Cathy learns is often a manifestation in disturbed children. It becomes a regular and frightening occurrence, and Cathy is horrified to find Dawn lighting a match whilst mumbling it’s not my fault in her sleep one night.

 

Cathy discovers Dawn is playing truant from school, and struggling to make friends. More worryingly she finds her room empty one night, and her pillow covered in blood. Dawn has been self-harming in order to release the pain of her past.

 

When Dawn attempts suicide, Cathy realises that she needs more help than she can give. Dawn’s mother eventually confides in her that Dawn was sent away to live with relatives in Ireland between the ages of 5 and 9, and Cathy soon realises that the horrors Dawn was exposed to during this time have left her a very disturbed little girl.

 

My Review: Dawn was one of the first children that Cathy Glass fostered.

 

Dawn came to her as a 13 year old girl who is a total nightmare as she is used to not having any rules but she does start to accept the structure that Cathy puts into place to keep Dawn safe.

 

However with all the trauma that has happened in Dawns life she sleep walks, sets fires and cuts herself in a suicide attempt. Dawn soon becomes comfortable enough to tell Cathy what really happened in her childhood and Cathy is able to help Dawn to become a lovely young woman that she should have the right to be.

 

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