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Sold to Be a Wife
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home.
But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. Sobbing, she confesses to Maggie that her parents are planning to send her to Pakistan to be married in a few days, and have threatened to kill her if she speaks out again.
Returned to Maggie's care, Shazia is petrified that her parents will track her down and kill her, and Maggie must be on constant alert. But the worst is yet to come when it emerges that Shazia is the victim of FGM. Can Maggie help this damaged and traumatised young girl understand what has happened to her and to find a way to heal?
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- Lisa
- 24-09-18
An insight in to the often very difficult job of being a foster carer
An honest account of one woman’s commitment to the role of foster carer focusing on the main character; a young Asian girl in her care, who having escaped her family and the threat of being married off to her cousin in Pakistan, has to learn to come to terms with some terrible things from her past and an uncertain future. Sensitively written and thought provoking.
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- Natalie Hibberd
- 29-09-18
Harrowing
This is an incredibly moving book but the horrors endured by the central character are so disturbing that I would say this is a book is not for the faint hearted.
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- George
- 09-10-18
Maggie does it again
Brill story line that I learned so much from reading and truely enjoyed, beware tissues required
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- Kathaleen
- 21-09-18
A provocative insight into a mysterious system
I liked the realistic way this book was written. I would recommend this book to anybody. I gave it this rating because I felt that it was well written.
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- seamist
- 04-04-19
Sold to be a wife
Very good read. fantastic. As a 69-year-old male not my first choice of book. It was well read. thank you
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- kirsty
- 17-06-19
brilliant book and well read. such a sad tale
such a sad story but really lovely at the same time to know there are foster carers out there like this lady
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- Heather
- 15-11-18
Fantastic book
Such a sad story beautifully told. Really hope this poor girl has a happy life now.
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- ian mcnamara
- 17-10-18
Fantastic as always.
Maggie Hartly is a really good author. The stories she writes are always good and she's clearly a caring person who does everything she can for the children in her care. This was quite a complicated case but her Cmpassion and care for Shazia was amazing and lovely to see. Maggie is clearly somebody who loves her job and it's always great to read her material.
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- Lauren
- 23-09-19
Well written and engaging
Maggie Hartley's fostering memoirs are well written and very moving. They give an insight into the world of fostering, adoption and parenting that has, I believed made me a better teacher and parent. Along with other fostering memoirs, these books have inspired my mum to consider a fostering carer and I hope to foster once my own children are older. Thank you Maggie.
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- jamie
- 15-11-19
good just missing something
while I really enjoyed it it was just missing something however I would still recommend for a light read
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