Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy: Part 2 of 3

Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy: Part 2 of 3
Cathy Glass

Will You Love Me can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-16 of 27).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.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 Withdrawn, refusing to eat and three years behind in her schooling, it is thought that the damage Lucy has suffered is irreversible.But Cathy and her two children bond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.

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Also by Cathy Glass

Damaged

Hidden

Cut

The Saddest Girl in the World

Happy Kids

The Girl in the Mirror

I Miss Mummy

Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

My Dad’s a Policeman (a Quick Reads novel)

Run, Mummy, Run

The Night the Angels Came

Happy Adults

A Baby’s Cry

Happy Mealtimes For Kids

Another Forgotten Child

Please Don’t Take My Baby

Contents

Cover (#ued19c187-f674-5f0a-8496-e813aaf4e7d5)

Title Page (#ulink_a9cb9121-7811-547c-86a6-c627e1664748)

Also by Cathy Glass (#ulink_a7760cbc-d919-5dcb-ad4f-9c663b696368)

Acknowledgements (#ulink_11874d69-cde8-539e-a362-223fbd77ae4d)

Epigraph (#ulink_7f0a2ba1-6f98-55c5-b770-554898c7bf40)

10 ‘A Family of My Own’ (#ulink_bee9b71e-e1f9-5b82-a415-58973656b70c)

11 Lucy (#ulink_bb594f8d-2759-5a15-8b17-5de0c0843024)

12 No Appetite (#litres_trial_promo)

13 ‘Do Our Best’ (#litres_trial_promo)

14 Control (#litres_trial_promo)

15 ‘I Don’t Want Her Help!’ (#litres_trial_promo)

16 Testing the Boundaries (#litres_trial_promo)

Exclusive sample chapter (#litres_trial_promo)

Cathy Glass

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#ub37738d9-7b77-5e82-960d-a51771762ed3)

A big thank-you to my editor, Holly; my literary agent Andrew; and Carole, Vicky, Laura and all the team at HarperCollins.

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‘Every time I hear a newborn baby cry …

Then I know why,

I believe.’

‘I Believe’ by Ervin Drake

Chapter Ten

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‘It’s a nightmare,’ Jill, my support social worker, said over the phone. ‘The carer’s husband had to break down the bathroom door to get Lucy out, and she’s still refusing to speak to anyone.’

‘The poor child,’ I said. ‘You can’t blame Lucy for being so upset. Her life has been a misery, more or less from day one. No wonder she’s so angry and feels unwanted. No one has wanted her.’

‘I know. You’ve read the referral?’