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LONG WAY FROM HOME EB
About this book
The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.
Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn't have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn't make sense.
Until I learned what had happened. …
Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the children were incarcerated in their cots. Their large eyes stared out blankly from emaciated faces. Some were obviously disabled, others not, but all were badly undernourished. Flies circled around the broken ceiling fans and buzzed against the grids covering the windows. The only toys were a few balls and a handful of building bricks, but no child played with them. The silence was deafening and unnatural. Not one of the thirty or so infants cried, let alone spoke.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Anna’s Story
- PART I: THE PARENTS’ STORY
- Chapter One: Lana
- Chapter Two: Another Chance?
- Chapter Three: Anxious
- Chapter Four: Anastasia
- Chapter Five: Shocked and Saddened
- Chapter Six: Lana’s Bear
- Chapter Seven: Time Apart
- Chapter Eight: Return
- Chapter Nine: Court Hearing
- Chapter Ten: All New
- Chapter Eleven: Exhausted
- Chapter Twelve: Another Worry
- Chapter Thirteen: Good Girl
- Chapter Fourteen: Settling In
- Chapter Fifteen: Bad Parenting?
- PART II: ANNA ARRIVES AT CATHY’S
- Chapter Sixteen: Foster Care
- Chapter Seventeen: First Night
- Chapter Eighteen: I Haven’t Got a Home
- Chapter Nineteen: Memories
- Chapter Twenty: Bad at Home
- Chapter Twenty-One: Review
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Frightened of Her Daughter
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Save a Child
- Chapter Twenty-Four: A Family Torn Apart
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Ian
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Missing Her
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Bad Ending
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Long Way from Home
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