Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds.
Written by Cathy Glass
Narrated by Denica Fairman
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About this audiobook
From the author of Number One bestseller Damaged comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy’s recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past.
Tayo arrives at Cathy’s with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police, but he is calm, polite, and very well spoken, and not at all like the children she normally fosters. The social worker gives Cathy the forms which should contain Tayo’s history, but apart from his name and age, it is blank. Tayo has no past.
Tayo is an 'invisible' child, kidnapped from his loving father in Nigeria and brought illegally to the UK by his drink and drugs dependent prostitute mother, where he is put to work in a sweat shop in Central London. When he sustains an injury and is no longer earning, he is cast out.
When Cathy takes Tayo to school and he points out a dozen different addresses where he has stayed in the last six months, often being left alone. Tayo lies, and manipulates situations to his own advantage and Cathy has to be continually on guard. Tayo’s social worker searches all computer databases but there is no record of Tayo – he has only attended school for 3 terms and has never seen a doctor. He and his mother have been evading the authorities by living ‘underground’.
With his mother recently released from prison, Tayo is desperate to live with his father in Nigeria, but no one can track him down or even prove that he exists.
Cathy Glass
Cathy has been a foster carer for over 25 years, during which time she has looked after more than 100 children, of all ages and backgrounds. She has three teenage children of her own; one of whom was adopted after a long-term foster placement. The name Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. Cathy has written 16 books, including bestselling memoirs Cut, Hidden and Mummy Told Me Not To Tell.
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Reviews for Hidden
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was very touching Cathy glass Hathaway with children. And is very gifted
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cathy is the type of care giver any child would be lucky to have.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic book could not stop listening. Cathy glass is a wonderful Author
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing story, what a carer she is and what a story. I enjoy all of her books
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Glass has a way of bringing the reader into her home and the lives of the foster children In her care. I had trouble putting this book down.Tayo was snatched by his mother at the age of five. Now he has been taken into foster care. He wants to return to his father and grandmother in Nigeria but no one knows if his memories are true or just wishful thinking.