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Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ heartbreaking memoir I Miss Mummy now combined in a single volume with her inspiring new title Please Don’t Take My Baby, about a pregnant teenager desperate to keep her child.In Please Don’t Take My Baby, Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child herself, she struggles with the responsibilities her daughter brings.Cathy knows that Jade loves her daughter with all her heart, but will she be able to get through to Jade in time to make her realise just how much she might lose?I Miss Mummy is the true story of Alice, aged four, who is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother takes her from her parents' house and disappears.

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Cathy Glass

THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Please Don’t Take My Baby and I Miss Mummy

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Contents

Cover

Title Page Cathy Glass THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Also by Cathy Glass

Please Don’t Take My Baby

I Miss Mummy

Cathy Glass

Copyright

About the Publisher

Also by Cathy Glass Also by Cathy Glass Please Don’t Take My Baby I Miss Mummy Cathy Glass Copyright About the Publisher

Damaged

Hidden

Cut

The Saddest Girl in the World

Happy Kids

The Girl in the Mirror

I Miss Mummy

Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

My Dad’s a Policeman (a Quick Reads novel)

Run, Mummy, Run

The Night the Angels Came

Happy Adults

A Baby’s Cry

Happy Mealtimes For Kids

Another Forgotten Child

Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Authors Note 1 Stranger - фото 2 Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Authors Note 1 Stranger - фото 3

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Author’s Note

1 Stranger at the Door

2 New Arrival

3 Awkward

4 First Evening

5 Jade’s Story

6 Jackie

7 Testing Boundaries

8 Silly, Silly Girl

9 Hurt by Dishonesty

10 ‘Like You See on the Telly’

11 ‘Smelly Baby’

12 Worth It

13 Assessment

14 Error of Judgement

15 Not an Ogre

16 A Police Matter

17 Shaken to the Core

18 Too Late

19 ‘Please Don’t Take My Baby’

20 Prolonging the Agony

21 Tuesday

22 Last Chance

23 Broken Rules and Promises

24 Moving On

Epilogue

Exclusive sample chapter

Acknowledgements Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Author’s Note 1 Stranger at the Door 2 New Arrival 3 Awkward 4 First Evening 5 Jade’s Story 6 Jackie 7 Testing Boundaries 8 Silly, Silly Girl 9 Hurt by Dishonesty 10 ‘Like You See on the Telly’ 11 ‘Smelly Baby’ 12 Worth It 13 Assessment 14 Error of Judgement 15 Not an Ogre 16 A Police Matter 17 Shaken to the Core 18 Too Late 19 ‘Please Don’t Take My Baby’ 20 Prolonging the Agony 21 Tuesday 22 Last Chance 23 Broken Rules and Promises 24 Moving On Epilogue Exclusive sample chapter

A big thank-you to my editor, Anne; my literary agent Andrew; and Carole, Vicky, Laura and all the team at HarperCollins.

Author’s Note Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Author’s Note 1 Stranger at the Door 2 New Arrival 3 Awkward 4 First Evening 5 Jade’s Story 6 Jackie 7 Testing Boundaries 8 Silly, Silly Girl 9 Hurt by Dishonesty 10 ‘Like You See on the Telly’ 11 ‘Smelly Baby’ 12 Worth It 13 Assessment 14 Error of Judgement 15 Not an Ogre 16 A Police Matter 17 Shaken to the Core 18 Too Late 19 ‘Please Don’t Take My Baby’ 20 Prolonging the Agony 21 Tuesday 22 Last Chance 23 Broken Rules and Promises 24 Moving On Epilogue Exclusive sample chapter

England has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the developed world. Last year nearly 40,000 teenage girls gave birth and nearly 60,000 terminated a pregnancy. These figures are truly shocking. And while some of the girls’ stories have happy endings, many do not.

Chapter One Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Author’s Note 1 Stranger at the Door 2 New Arrival 3 Awkward 4 First Evening 5 Jade’s Story 6 Jackie 7 Testing Boundaries 8 Silly, Silly Girl 9 Hurt by Dishonesty 10 ‘Like You See on the Telly’ 11 ‘Smelly Baby’ 12 Worth It 13 Assessment 14 Error of Judgement 15 Not an Ogre 16 A Police Matter 17 Shaken to the Core 18 Too Late 19 ‘Please Don’t Take My Baby’ 20 Prolonging the Agony 21 Tuesday 22 Last Chance 23 Broken Rules and Promises 24 Moving On Epilogue Exclusive sample chapter

Stranger at the Door Contents Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Author’s Note 1 Stranger at the Door 2 New Arrival 3 Awkward 4 First Evening 5 Jade’s Story 6 Jackie 7 Testing Boundaries 8 Silly, Silly Girl 9 Hurt by Dishonesty 10 ‘Like You See on the Telly’ 11 ‘Smelly Baby’ 12 Worth It 13 Assessment 14 Error of Judgement 15 Not an Ogre 16 A Police Matter 17 Shaken to the Core 18 Too Late 19 ‘Please Don’t Take My Baby’ 20 Prolonging the Agony 21 Tuesday 22 Last Chance 23 Broken Rules and Promises 24 Moving On Epilogue Exclusive sample chapter

We’d just sat down to our evening meal when the doorbell rang. I sighed. Why did salespeople always manage to time their calls with dinner? Double glazing, cavity-wall insulation, religion, new driveway, landscape the garden or fresh fish from Grimsby: whatever they were selling, 6.00 p.m. seemed to be the time they called, I supposed because most people are home from work by then and it isn’t so late that people won’t answer their front doors.

‘Aren’t you going to see who it is, Mum?’ Paula, my eight-year-old daughter, asked, as I didn’t immediately leave the table.

‘Yes,’ I said as the bell rang for a second time.

Standing, I swallowed my mouthful of cottage pie and went down the hall to the front door, ready to despatch the salesperson as quickly as possible.

‘And don’t be rude!’ Adrian called after me.

As if I would! Although it was true I usually sent away cold callers efficiently and effectively, which to Adrian, aged twelve, could be seen as rude and certainly embarrassing.

‘Don’t be cheeky,’ I returned, as I arrived at the front door.

It was dark outside at six o’clock in January and, as usual, before answering the door at night, I checked the security spyhole, which allowed me to see who was in the porch. The porch was illuminated by a carriage lamp and gave enough light for me to see a lady in her early thirties, dressed smartly in a light-grey winter coat, and whom I vaguely recognized from seeing in the street. I guessed she was collecting either money for a charity or signatures for a petition on a local issue: traffic calming, crossing patrol, noisy pub in the high road, etc.

‘Hello,’ I said with a smile as I opened the door. The cold night air rushed in.

‘I’m sorry to trouble you,’ she began. ‘You’re Cathy Glass, aren’t you?’ I saw she wasn’t carrying a charity-collection tin or a clipboard with a petition to sign.

‘Yes,’ I said, surprised she knew my name. I certainly didn’t know hers.

‘I’m sorry to disturb you. My name’s Meryl Dennis. I work at Beachcroft School. I’m the games mistress – I teach PE. I expect you’ve seen me around? I live at number 122.’

‘Oh yes,’ I said. Number 122 was at the very bottom of the street.

I smiled politely and wondered why she was telling me who she was and about her school, which was on the other side of the county. Adrian, who’d started secondary school the previous September, attended a local school and Paula was still at our local primary school. I smiled again and waited, aware that the cold air was chilling the house and my half-eaten dinner was on the table going cold.

‘You foster, don’t you?’ Meryl asked a little nervously.

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