Battered, Broken, Healed: A mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
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Maggie Hartley is not the first foster carer whose memoirs I've read, though I believe this is the first of hers I have completed. It's hard to review these kinds of books due to their nature. I don't feel I can't rate a book highly just because it pulls at the heart strings. What I personally have to consider is why I read these books and did it live up to those specific expectations. Unfortunately for this memoir, the main reason I personally tend to read fostering mentors is to see how the carer managed the difficult issues the child in their care faces. This book however is a lot more to do with the mother of the foster child than the foster child themselves. Therefore, for me is didn't register as much. The prose was standard for the genre, and I did feel I liked Maggie, so I will return to her work. But would I recommend this as a shining example as an example of the genre? Probably not.
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Maggie Hartley is not the first foster carer whose memoirs I've read, though I believe this is the first of hers I have completed. It's hard to review these kinds of books due to their nature. I don't feel I can't rate a book highly just because it pulls at the heart strings. What I personally have to consider is why I read these books and did it live up to those specific expectations. Unfortunately for this memoir, the main reason I personally tend to read fostering mentors is to see how the carer managed the difficult issues the child in their care faces. This book however is a lot more to do with the mother of the foster child than the foster child themselves. Therefore, for me is didn't register as much. The prose was standard for the genre, and I did feel I liked Maggie, so I will return to her work. But would I recommend this as a shining example as an example of the genre? Probably not.