Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: A New Year, a New Child Chapter Two: Unsettled Early Life Chapter Three: Alex’s Parents Chapter Four: A Joyful Meeting Chapter Five: A Positive Start Chapter Six: Alex Meets His Parents Chapter Seven: Meeting James Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Publisher
Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: A New Year, a New Child Chapter Two: Unsettled Early Life Chapter Three: Alex’s Parents Chapter Four: A Joyful Meeting Chapter Five: A Positive Start Chapter Six: Alex Meets His Parents Chapter Seven: Meeting James Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Publisher
Certain details in this story, including names, places and dates, have been changed to protect the family’s privacy.
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Title Page Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: A New Year, a New Child Chapter Two: Unsettled Early Life Chapter Three: Alex’s Parents Chapter Four: A Joyful Meeting Chapter Five: A Positive Start Chapter Six: Alex Meets His Parents Chapter Seven: Meeting James Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Publisher
Copyright Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: A New Year, a New Child Chapter Two: Unsettled Early Life Chapter Three: Alex’s Parents Chapter Four: A Joyful Meeting Chapter Five: A Positive Start Chapter Six: Alex Meets His Parents Chapter Seven: Meeting James Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Publisher Certain details in this story, including names, places and dates, have been changed to protect the family’s privacy. HarperElement An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published by HarperElement 2017 FIRST EDITION © Cathy Glass 2017 Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2017 Cover photograph © Deborah Pendell/Arcangel Images (boy, posed by model); Shutterstock.com (background) A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Cathy Glass asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Find out about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green Source ISBN: 9780008187569 Ebook Edition © February 2017 ISBN: 9780008187590 Version: 2017-01-09
Acknowledgements Acknowledgements A big thank you to my family; my editors, Carolyn and Holly; my literary agent, Andrew; my UK publishers, HarperCollins, and my overseas publishers, who are now too numerous to list by name. Last, but definitely not least, a big thank you to my readers for your unfailing support and kind words.
Prologue Prologue We immediately fell silent as the noise sounded again. The children stared at me anxiously before our eyes went towards the curtains drawn across the patio doors. It was cold and dark outside, but something was out there scratching and trying to get in. Not our cat; she was asleep by the warm radiator, and it didn’t sound like a cat anyway. I stood and gingerly crossed the room, my heart pounding and my senses on full alert. There were just the children and me in the house, and I tried to hide my fear from them as I eased one curtain aside and peered into the dark. Nothing. Whatever it was had vanished again like a phantom into the night.
Chapter One: A New Year, a New Child
Chapter Two: Unsettled Early Life
Chapter Three: Alex’s Parents
Chapter Four: A Joyful Meeting
Chapter Five: A Positive Start
Chapter Six: Alex Meets His Parents
Chapter Seven: Meeting James
Moving Memoirs eNewsletter
About the Publisher
A big thank you to my family; my editors, Carolyn and Holly; my literary agent, Andrew; my UK publishers, HarperCollins, and my overseas publishers, who are now too numerous to list by name. Last, but definitely not least, a big thank you to my readers for your unfailing support and kind words.
We immediately fell silent as the noise sounded again. The children stared at me anxiously before our eyes went towards the curtains drawn across the patio doors. It was cold and dark outside, but something was out there scratching and trying to get in. Not our cat; she was asleep by the warm radiator, and it didn’t sound like a cat anyway. I stood and gingerly crossed the room, my heart pounding and my senses on full alert. There were just the children and me in the house, and I tried to hide my fear from them as I eased one curtain aside and peered into the dark. Nothing. Whatever it was had vanished again like a phantom into the night.
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