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Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.

When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?

Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly. Prevented from having any contact with them by her family who insist she has brought shame and dishonour on the whole community, Zeena tries to see them at school. But when her father and uncle find out, they bundle her into a car and threaten to set fire to her if she makes anymore trouble. Zeena is too frightened to press charges against them despite being offered police protection in a safe house.

Eventually, Cathy discovers the devastating truth from Zeena, and with devastation she believes there is little she can do to help her.

©2014 Cathy Glass (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Parenting & Families Relationships Heartfelt
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absolutely amazing book loved reading it and finished it quickly as had me hooked

loved it all

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It was nice to read about a teenager's experience. Zeena seems very strong to me, despite what she went through. As always, Cathy has a really approachable and kind manner, as much with Zeena as with any other child or teen she fosters, and this really comes across in her writing. There are very sensitive issues here, but Cathy's adolescent/ young adult children deal with what happened to Zeena with a wiseness beyond their years. As with all books by Cathy Glass, I cannot fault the flow of the story or the character voice.

A Riveting Story

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I feel so touched by this story, from how Z's mum was forced to ignore the cruelty that her daughter was put through, its so wrong that because Z was attacked which is brutal enough for a very young girl to go through but then not being able to tell anyone cos of shame on the family, and then she gets called wrotten names then the unspeakable happens, I am so moved by how Cathy helps her through this terrible time her professionalism and patients im in ore over any child going to Cathy I feel a huge sigh of relief as I know she'll do everything in her power with her beautiful family to get the poor child through it, and on the right track, I love listening to your books ive now nearly got them all,
Thankyou Cathy, Adrian, Paula & the very lucky wild child ( in the nicest of ways) Lucy,
God bless you all,

society and womens place in it with religion

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As usual a sad but great read onto the next book for me. I've been reading in order so I get to follow her family's story along the way

love cathy glass

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This broke my heart into a million pieces but I am so glad that things worked out for her.

Another brilliant story

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