Too Young to be a Mum, Maggie Hartley
Too Young to be a Mum, Maggie Hartley
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Too Young to be a Mum

Author: Maggie Hartley

Narrator: Penny MacDonald

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/07/2017


Synopsis

When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go.

Arriving straight from the hospital having just given birth, Jess is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Scared, alone, and practically a child herself, she is overwhelmed with the responsibility of caring for a newborn without the support of a loving family or her beloved boyfriend. With social services threatening to take baby Jimmy into care, Jess knows that Maggie is her only chance of keeping her son.

Maggie can see that Jess loves her boyfriend and wants to be a good mother to her son. Can Maggie help Jess learn to become a mum? Will the family ever be allowed to live together?

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 Ian on October 01, 2017

Really enjoyed this book, looking forward to more in the future. This story was especially good because I like the way Maggie stood up for what she believed in despite everybody else not agreeing with her. It is lovely that the story had the happy ending it deserved.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on July 08, 2021

From reading books by other foster carerors, I understand that truly happy endings are rare. That’s why this story stands out so much. I can honestly say that I spent more time smiling reading this book than any other in the foster care memoir genre books I have read so far.......more

Goodreads review by belle on May 06, 2017

What a beautiful outcome This was an excellent read two foster children reunited with parents/parent and in these two cases rightfully so .really happy ending such a good read......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on September 04, 2017

I love all of Maggie Hartley's books, never read one I didn't like.......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on October 04, 2017

Everything I love in a fostering memoir. So realistic, but heart-warming too.......more