Title: Will You Love Me? Lucy’s Story
Author: Cathy Glass
Pages: 312
Release Date: September 12th 2013
Format: Paperback
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Synopsis: The eleventh memoir and latest
title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass.
This book tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.
Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of
her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy’s mother couldn’t cope, but it
wasn’t until Lucy reached eight years old that she was finally taken into
permanent foster care.
By the time Lucy is brought to live with Cathy she is eleven years old and
severely distressed after being moved from one foster home to another.
Withdrawn, refusing to eat and three years behind in her schooling, it is
thought that the damage Lucy has suffered is irreversible.
But Cathy and her two children bond with Lucy quickly, and break through to
Lucy in a way no-one else has been able to, finally showing her the loving home
she never believed existed. Cathy and Lucy believe they were always destined to
be mother and daughter it just took them a little while to find each other.
My Review: This is the story of Lucy, Cathy’s
adopted daughter whose mother Bonnie wasn’t the best due to things that
happened to her during her own childhood. Bonnie couldn’t cope with looking
after Lucy and left her on her own all the time.
At 8 years
old Lucy finally goes into care and it took so long because Bonnie was good at avoiding
the social services by constantly moving around and by the time she arrives
with Cathy at the age of 12 Lucy is very skinny, she has isolated herself and
is very far behind at school.
While living
with Cathy Lucy starts to bond with Cathy and her two children Adrien and Paula
and she starts to come out of her shell and do better at school.
When it comes
to finding Lucy a ‘forever family’ Cathy and her family are so close to Lucy
that she decides she needs to adopt her and give her the stability she needs
however Lucy’s social worker wants to place Lucy in a home where the family can
meet her cultural need as Lucy is half Asian but she does not know anything
about that side of her family and it takes a very long time for the social
workers to finally let Cathy adopt Lucy.
This is a
wonderful story and I enjoyed learning about Lucy as you read about her in most
of Cathy’s other stories about the other children she fostered and I’m glad
that Lucy was finally given a ‘forever family’ just like all the other children
in Cathy’s stories get.
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