Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

· Trapeze · Narrated by Penny McDonald
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Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.

To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home.

But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. Sobbing, she confesses to Maggie that her parents are planning to send her to Pakistan to be married in a few days, and have threatened to kill her if she speaks out again.

Returned to Maggie's care, Shazia is petrified that her parents will track her down and kill her, and Maggie must be on constant alert. But the worst is yet to come when it emerges that Shazia is the victim of FGM. Can Maggie help this damaged and traumatised young girl understand what has happened to her and to find a way to heal?

Read by Penny MacDonald
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

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4.5
8 reviews
Vicente Valdespino
December 11, 2021
I see someone I am in love with someone that is lost without my help! But no one will be able to fix my brokenness with her,,them but thank God that my daughter is not a dope fiend and I will follow her take care of her and your plans will not succeed with my love for her and my kids is greater than what you've ever seen maybe even we'll see I hope you can open your eyes to see that I thought you know what I love for a daughter and son is?
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Anil Das
June 2, 2023
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About the author

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies. You can find her on Facebook at /MaggieHartleyAuthor, where she would love to hear from you.

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