Adoption

Lilla Hjärtat är fallet som slutade i en tragedi och som berörde hela Sverige. Treåriga Esmeralda sveks av myndigheterna och tvingades lämna det familjehem som hon hade vuxit upp i sedan sju veckors ålder. Här får vi med familjehemsmamman Melinda ...

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"mycket lättillgänglig och intressant" BTJ Maria Jung Yoon adopterades från Sydkorea till Sverige 1968. En flicka på två och ett halvt år och ett äldre, barnlöst par i Norrköping, det kan väl bara sluta lyckligt? Men i själva verket är h...

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APRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler . . . outstanding and highly enjoyable' Obs...

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The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situati...

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Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is vulnerable, naive and unable to cope on her own. Cathy...

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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even befo...

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A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES'Just read it . . . Outstanding' Matt Haig'To say I love this book is an understatement . . . It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adol...

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Thomas Ardenfors har, tillsammans med sin familj, varit jour- och familjehem i nästan 30 år. För några år sedan skrev han boken En extra plats i hjärtat, en bok som spritts över hela landet och används i en mängd olika sammanhang. En familjehemspa...

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Darina växte upp i ett kärlekslöst barnhem i Tjeckoslovakien. Hon omhändertogs av myndigheterna 6 månader gammal och var på barnhem tills hon som 4-åring blev bortadopterad. Som rom var hon oönskad - alla romska barn valdes sist! Från tiden på bar...

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'I think this is one of the best books I have read by Maggie Hartley' Amazon reader review THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, a new powerful true story from Maggie Hartley, foster carer for over 20 y...

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What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison,...

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APRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler . . . outstanding and highly enjoyable' Observer'The Most Fun...

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Familjen Ardenfors har varit familjehem, jourhem och kontaktfamilj för ett stort antal barn under mer än 20 års tid. I boken delar Thomas Ardenfors rakt och öppet med sig av sina erfarenheter av hur det är att vara familjehemspappa - vilka glädjeä...

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Little Jamey, 2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partyi...

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From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and dete...

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Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the childrens parents, are distraught when their...

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Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly...

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Familjehemsmamman Melindas egna ord om kampen för barnen. Lilla Hjärtat är fallet som slutade i en tragedi och som berörde hela Sverige. Treåriga Esmeralda sveks av myndigheterna och tvingades lämna det familjehem som hon hade vuxit upp i sedan sj...

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A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most ic...

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Maria Jung Yoon adopterades från Sydkorea till Sverige 1968. En flicka på två och ett halvt år och ett äldre, barnlöst par i Norrköping, det kan väl bara sluta lyckligt? Men i själva verket är hon över fyra år gammal och kvar i Seoul finns hennes ...

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Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his birth mother. As he was approaching fifty, Pierce decided that it was finally time to track down his biological mother. He knew that he had live...

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Älska lagom är en klassisk handbok som får läsaren, som har eller vill ha familjehemsbarn, att ställa sig själv viktiga frågor vars svar med automatik leder till en positiv utveckling. När Lena Holfve fick frågan av en f.d. lärare om hon kunde hyr...

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Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought...

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From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination. Jessie is ni...

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När Ejvor Jonsson är ett år gammal kommer Jakob De Geer på besök på barnhemmet där hon bor. När han får se den ljuslockiga flickan slita en nalle från en pojke, slå honom i huvudet med den och ilsket skrika "Min! Min!" säger han direkt: "Den där s...

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There Is Hope for Every Child, Every Parent, and Every Family Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from hard places, who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more ch...

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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be bro...

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Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevies social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isnt sure what that term means and looks it up. ...

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Hole in My Heart is a memoir of love, loss, and redemption. Meticulously researched, the book shows how Dusky became a major force in changing laws to give adopted adults access to their birth records.

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A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she ...

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