Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass

Date Started: 7/3/2013
Date Finished: 9/3/2013
Rated: Five out of Five
Format: Paperback
Series: No
Owned: Yes

I first saw this book and just by the cover I thought it would be a good read, but as soon as I read the blurb, my mind started wondering if I would be able to read it...I bought it anyway knowing that if I didn't buy it the book would be playing on my mind until I bought it...little did I know it would play on my mind regardless.

Cathy, the woman in the story, is a foster carer who has had many foster children and she starts fostering a little girl called Aimee who lived with her mum in a smell, cold flat. Her mum and dad do drugs and Aimee has been on the child protection register since she was born and everyone wonders why she wasn't taken from her mother sooner.

Throughout the story we see a vulnerable little girl who is argumentative and rude, not to mention smells, has head lice and doesn't know hoe to do basic tasks. She has older siblings that had been taken away before Aimee but the question throughout the whole book is 'why wasn't she took away from her mother sooner'. Aimee's mother accuses foster carers of everything and anything just to get her children back and doesn't seem to understand why she hasn't got them back. Throughput the book Aimee divulges some information about her past and because of this, then lies when her mum is about.

This book gives a insight to what the care system in the UK does and doesn't do for children and also shows the reader inside the life of a carer and the troubles they sometimes have to go through with children in care.

This book is a book I won't forget in a hurry. This book is a boom I would re-read over and over again. I give this five out of five...a very interesting and thought provoking book.