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Cathy Glass Biography & Facts

Cathy Glass is a British writer of non-fiction and 'inspirational' fiction. Cathy has written memoirs about the children she has fostered, many of whom had suffered abuse. She has published 28 memoirs based on her experiences. The name "Cathy Glass" is a pseudonym. The author writes under a pen name due to the sensitive nature of her source material. The names of the children she writes about are likewise altered. Fostering and parenting expertise Glass used to work for as a civil servant but left to start a family. The author decided to foster a child after trying unsuccessfully for a baby with her husband; she had seen an advert in her local paper seeking a foster home for a girl and applied as a foster carer. Writing career Before the release of her first title she had written on health and social issues for The Guardian and the Evening Standard. Glass's first book, Damaged was released by HarperCollins in 2007. It focuses on the relationship between Glass and an abused child under her care. Her fostering memoir, Will You Love Me?, published in September 2013. tells the story of her adopted daughter. ' The books "Nobody's Son", "Cruel to Be Kind" and "A Long Way From Home" are all set before Glass adopted her daughter; although were released after her book "Will you Love Me?" which tells her daughter's story. Her latest book An Innocent Baby was released on 16 September 2021 telling the story of Darcey-May and Haylea and "Neglected" was released on 17 February 2022. "A family torn apart" was released in September 2022. References. Discover the Cathy Glass popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Cathy Glass books.

Best Seller Cathy Glass Books of 2024

  • Mummy is a Killer synopsis, comments

    Mummy is a Killer

    Nikkia Roberson

    'Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother and sister? Didn’t you love us enough?'Nikkia Roberson has been asking these q...

  • Too Young to be a Mum synopsis, comments

    Too Young to be a Mum

    Maggie Hartley

    When sixteenyearold Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go. Arriving straight from the hospital having just g...

  • Exploited synopsis, comments

    Exploited

    Maggie Hartley

    'He said he loved me.'Fourteenyearold Hannah comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley after her mum pleads with Social Services to take her into care, unable to cope with her...

  • Please Give My Baby Back synopsis, comments

    Please Give My Baby Back

    Maggie Hartley

    'Please don't take him. Let him stay with me. Please don't take my baby.'When a health visitor notices a bruise on her newborn son's leg, Robyn's world quickly falls apart. Before ...

  • Slave synopsis, comments

    Slave

    Anna & Jason Johnson

    Now watch the BBC drama Doing Money‘They took me because I would not be missed’This is the shocking true story of how an ordinary young girl was kidnapped off the street as she wal...

  • Tiny Prisoners synopsis, comments

    Tiny Prisoners

    Maggie Hartley

    Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wideeyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister h...

  • Not To Blame synopsis, comments

    Not To Blame

    Maggie Hartley

    'Could I do that, Maggie? Could I find my mum?'Sixteenyearold Rebecca has been in care all her life, bouncing from foster carers and children's homes without ever having a permanen...

  • The Kid synopsis, comments

    The Kid

    Kevin Lewis

    Kevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape ...

  • The Lady in the Looking Glass synopsis, comments

    The Lady in the Looking Glass

    Virginia Woolf

    'People should not leave lookingglasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.''If she concealed so much...

  • Little Boy Lost synopsis, comments

    Little Boy Lost

    Shane Dunphy

    Courage is sometimes found in the unlikeliest places ...Dominic is a sixteen yearold manchild: while he has the body of a prizefighter, as a result of a terrible seizure when he wa...

  • The Little Ghost Girl synopsis, comments

    The Little Ghost Girl

    Maggie Hartley

    Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things ...

  • The Girl With No Name synopsis, comments

    The Girl With No Name

    Reine Andrieu

    Heartbreaking. Gripping. Terribly captivating.'Read it in one sitting!' Madeleine, Amazon reviewerShe may not remember her name,but her body knows.1940. When a French family is fo...

  • Suffer the Little Children synopsis, comments

    Suffer the Little Children

    Frances Reilly

    The heartbreaking yet inspiring account of a young girl who suffered at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent in Northern Ireland.Frances Reilly and her sisters were aban...

  • Safe With You synopsis, comments

    Safe With You

    R.M. Ward

    ‘An unimaginably suspenseful thriller, with twist after twist’ Heat‘A gripping thriller . . . Highly recommended’ C.S. GreenDon’t miss R.M. Ward’s latest thriller, THE GIRL WHO VAN...

  • Please Protect Us synopsis, comments

    Please Protect Us

    Toni Maguire

    From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of shame, silence, abuse and survival.'I have a very clear picture of the day Clive entered our lives. I can see hi...

  • The Cocaine Diaries synopsis, comments

    The Cocaine Diaries

    Jeff Farrell & Paul Keany

    ‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany w...

  • A Family For Christmas synopsis, comments

    A Family For Christmas

    Maggie Hartley

    When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare. A splitsecond decision to leave toddler Edward alone for a few short minutes ...

  • Wake Up, Mummy synopsis, comments

    Wake Up, Mummy

    Anna Lowe

    'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be s...

  • Behind Closed Doors synopsis, comments

    Behind Closed Doors

    Maggie Hartley

    'It's okay, lovely,' I soothed. 'You let it all out.'She sobbed and sobbed as all the fear came tumbling to the surface.Foster carer Maggie Hartley is finally enjoying a wellearned...

  • The Forgotten Child synopsis, comments

    The Forgotten Child

    Richard Gallear

    Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heartbreaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It...

  • Finding Stevie synopsis, comments

    Finding Stevie

    Cathy Glass

    Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online.When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, i...

  • Tortured synopsis, comments

    Tortured

    Victoria Spry

    As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy.To the outside world Eunice Spry was a devoted parent, but behind closed doors sh...

  • Without Hope synopsis, comments

    Without Hope

    Barbara Naughton

    Barbara's father was a sadistic man at the best of times his idea of fun was to kill the family dog by tying it to the back of his car and driving off. Also for kicks, he took his...

  • Vanessa synopsis, comments

    Vanessa

    Wensley Clarkson

    The compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families.As a nursery worker, wife and mother, she wa...

  • An Affair with My Mother synopsis, comments

    An Affair with My Mother

    Caitríona Palmer

    'Incredibly moving' Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker PrizeAn Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for...

  • The Boy in the Cupboard synopsis, comments

    The Boy in the Cupboard

    Shane Dunphy

    Three heartstopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts ... Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around ...

  • Denied a Mummy synopsis, comments

    Denied a Mummy

    Maggie Hartley & Penny McDonald

    When Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short lives. Violent ...

  • My Mother, the Psychopath synopsis, comments

    My Mother, the Psychopath

    Olivia Rayne

    What do you do when the person you’re meant to trust the most in the world is the one trying to destroy you? ‘When people met her they thought how lovely she was, this attractive w...

  • Battered, Broken, Healed synopsis, comments

    Battered, Broken, Healed

    Maggie Hartley

    A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her abusive husband, and reunite her...

  • The Girl Behind the Gates synopsis, comments

    The Girl Behind the Gates

    Brenda Davies

    TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Compelling. Poignant. Haunting. Heart wrenching. Just beautiful. Everyone needs to read this wonderful book.' Renita D'Silva, bestselling author of The Forgotte...

  • The Cupboard Under the Stairs synopsis, comments

    The Cupboard Under the Stairs

    Paul Mason

    Paul Mason’s father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up and naked in a tiny cupboard under the stairs of their home be...

  • Too Scared to Cry synopsis, comments

    Too Scared to Cry

    Maggie Hartley

    Brothers Ben and Damien are shockingly quiet when they arrive on Maggie's doorstep. They don't shout or play like normal three and four year olds. They hardly dare make a sound, so...

  • Too Scared To Cry synopsis, comments

    Too Scared To Cry

    Maggie Hartley

    A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Gir...

  • A Desperate Cry for Help synopsis, comments

    A Desperate Cry for Help

    Maggie Hartley

    Twelveyearold Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in. Terrified and having lost most of her possessions, Maggie must work hard to ma...

  • Cathy Glass 3-Book Self-Help Collection synopsis, comments

    Cathy Glass 3-Book Self-Help Collection

    Cathy Glass

    Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ three selfhelp guides, Happy Kids, Happy Adults and Happy Mealtimes for Kids, now available for the...

  • The Girl No One Wanted synopsis, comments

    The Girl No One Wanted

    Maggie Hartley

    Elevenyearold Leanne is out of control. Since being taken into care at the age of three, she has had over forty placements, each carer less able to cope with her anger and destruct...