Tiny Prisoners, Maggie Hartley
Tiny Prisoners, Maggie Hartley
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Tiny Prisoners
Two siblings trapped in a world of abuse. One woman determined to free them

Author: Maggie Hartley

Narrator: Penny MacDonald

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/10/2017

Synopsis

Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy, and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence, and neglect.

Maggie soon realizes that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted. The outside world terrifies them; the sound of the doorbell sends them into a panic that takes hours to abate. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heart-breaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.

From emotionally scarred and damaged little children, we see how—with warmth and dedication—Maggie transforms their lives. As this moving story unfolds, we share Maggie's joy when these children finally smile again, when they realize they do have a future after all.

About Maggie Hartley

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often couldn't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed "unadoptable" because of their behavior or the extreme trauma they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand, and taught young mothers how to parent their newborn babies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on September 11, 2019

This is the remarkable and sad story of brother and sister Evie and Elliot, who have been abused and neglected by their parents, they are only two and three years old. When they turn up on the doorstep of foster carer Maggie Hartley they are in desperate need of a bath and food. Straight away can Ma......more

Goodreads review by Jen from Quebec :0) on November 14, 2020

Did not sleep tonight due to my insomnia, and wanted an 'easy read' to kill a few hours. This book felt like/looked like/ and read like a Cathy Glass book, but was less ...'preachy', if you know what I mean. Sometimes Cathy Glass' books turn into books about wonderful savior 'CATHY the CARETAKER', a......more

Goodreads review by yvonne saunders on January 04, 2017

Lovely kids What a wonderful book you have written Maggie so nice to read an happy ending. I loved the way you just get on with things...Your children are an inspiration to you they welcomed Evie and Elliot with open arms... I will be recommending this book to my friends xxx......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on September 29, 2017

So glad to have discovered this author. She writes with such depth of feeling.......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on October 03, 2017

Personal Response I thought this book,Tiny Prisoners was well written, but the story was sad. The fact that it was a true story about two little kids, Evie and Elliot, made it a sad book that ended happy. I don’t believe any children should have to go through the neglect these two children had in th......more

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