The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster
carer Casey Watson.
A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child
carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a
week. Many remain invisible to a system that would otherwise help
them. Abigail is one of those children. This is her story.
Ten-year-old Abigail has never known her father. Her mother,
Sarah, has multiple sclerosis, and Abigail has been her carer since
she was a toddler shopping, cooking, cleaning and attending to her
personal needs. When Sarah is rushed to hospital, suddenly this
comes to the attention of the social services, and Abigail has
nowhere to go.
Though she doesn t fit the usual profile of a child that
specialist foster carers Casey and Mike Watson would take on, they
are happy to step in and look after Abigail. It s an emergency,
after all and all that s needed is a loving temporary home, while
social services look into how to support the family so that they
can be reunited.
But it soon becomes clear that this isn t going to happen. Sarah
s MS is now at a very advanced stage, and the doctors are certain
that there will no longer be periods of remission. Abigail s
emotional state starts to spiral out of control as she struggles to
let go of the burden of responsibilities she has carried for so
long.
Sarah and Abigail insist that they do not need help, but with no
other family to contact, social services are left with no choice
but to find long-term care for Abigail, against their wishes. But
Casey never gives up on a child in need, and she knows there must
be another solution "
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