Rosie Lewis
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Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart.
Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short while. Taylor tries desperately not to fit in, to be the tough young teen that she has had to become, making it clear that she cares about nothing and...
2) Silenced
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A family with a dark secret.
A child who refuses to speak.
Rosie must help her before it's too late. Nine-year-old Caitlin has a secret, but she cannot tell anyone about it. When her mother is sectioned under the Mental Health Act, she and her three siblings have to go and live with her grandmother Julie and grandad Ryan. Caitlin finds her new living conditions challenging cat poo on the carpet, rubbish everywhere and the constant stare of her grandad...
3) Broken
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Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster care on New Year's Day and instantly recognizes Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
Social workers...
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A heartbreaking and shocking short story from foster carer Rosie Lewis. Toddler Charlie falls from the second floor window of his tower block home while his mother is busy shooting up in their dirty council flat. Laying alone on a pile of rubbish until concerned neighbours hear him whimpering, Charlie is taken to hospital by police officers who are unable to rouse his mother. With a gash to his head, a terrified Charlie is delivered to foster carer...
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A collection of inspiring and emotive real-life short stories from foster cares Casey Watson and Rosie Lewis.
Sarah, a baby born to a crack-addicted mother on a freezing cold night in December.
Charlie, who fell from the second-floor window of his tower block home while his mother is busy shooting up in their dirty council flat.
Angell, left barely clothed beneath a park bench on a freezing cold day in winter.
Hope, abandoned as a newborn by a...