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Battered, Broken, Healed

The true story of a mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together

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Battered, Broken, Healed

By: Maggie Hartley
Narrated by: Penelope McDonald
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When six-week-old Jasmine is placed with foster carer Maggie Hartley, Maggie is delighted to have a baby in the house again. Jasmine has been taken into care over fears for her safety after the police are called to the family's home several times following her birth. Her mother, Hailey, vehemently denies that anything is wrong, however, and social services allow her to have daily supervised visits with Jasmine.

Baby Jasmine is a joy to be around, but Maggie suspects that all is not quite as it seems with her mum. Maggie struggles to draw timid and extremely quiet Hailey out of her shell and fears that she may be suffering with postnatal depression.

Then one day Hailey arrives for the contact session with her hair streaked with blood and her body covered in bruises. Breaking down, a terrified Hailey admits that she is being abused by her violent husband and is too afraid to leave him.

Maggie realises that the only way mother and daughter will be reunited is if Hailey admits what's going on behind closed doors and leaves her husband. But after years of physical and psychological abuse, that's easier said than done....

©2018 Maggie Hartley (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Abuse Child Abuse Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Adoption Marriage Foster Parenting

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this was a fantastic book. Penny read it very well. Story line was great. I'd highly recommend it. An extremely great read.

Brilliant!

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I couldn’t put this book down great read recommended to everyone that like these books

Great read

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Another fantastic book! Finished it in a day it was so good! Lots going on and great writing.

Fantastic!

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Enjoyed the book . I really enjoy these Maggie Hartley books and listen in over 2 days or quicker.

really enjoy these Maggie Hartley books .

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fantastic book and great narration kept me hooked from start to finish. very interesting story and well detailed too

fantastic book

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This was a heartbreaking lissen but like all of her books it was amazing you have inspired me in so many ways to be a foster carer and I’m going for my qualifications to do so keep up to good work Maggie!

Love it!

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I was finding it hard to put it down! A great story.You will enjoy !

great read !

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I’ve read all of Maggie’s books and she not yet failed to make me cry.
I was in the foster care system myself but could not get the happy ending that these children and family‘s got.
Maggie writes beautifully with the attention to small details that really makes such emotional stories come alive.

Another Beautifully written heart rending story

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a absolutely great book and well told could not stop listening to it amazing story

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Another wonderful story from a lovely foster carer, people that foster care are very very patient & really do need the patients of a saint, to care for these child & then hand them over to their forever family. Penny is a very good narrator & so far all Maggie's books have been narratored by her, I loved this book so much I couldn't stop listening to it.

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