Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Jun 2018 · Hachette UK
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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?
A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years.
'I've always enjoyed Maggie Hartley's fostering stories, but this is without doubt her best' 5* Amazon reader review
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?
A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years.
'I've always enjoyed Maggie Hartley's fostering stories, but this is without doubt her best' 5* Amazon reader review
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emiky may
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June 2, 2024
It is a profound book and is beautifully written by this brilliant author. I cried on some pages, as I was abused by my kurdish husband myself. I know some of what shazia must have felt the poor girl. More awareness or law changes, (or something) needs to be done for vulnerable and/or impressionable young women and girls like Shazia because they are simply forgotten otherwise whilst they live a life of pain, misery and often, domestic slavery.
Monica Choi
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February 6, 2019
At times your heart breaks for what the child has endured and thinks of as the norm. We then love for the rare fortunate times when these children can be saved from these barbaric cultures. I hope these many many unfortunate children will come across a 'Maggie' to save them from their plight.
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claire reid
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July 5, 2018
As per to all her other books, maggie portrays her real life story in ways
where, we the readers can feel part of the sadness that mggie herself felt.
I can't wait for her new book and hope there will be maby many more to
come. And well done Maggie for all your hard work, love, care and emotional
efforts that go into protecting and helping another child xx
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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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