Книга - Girl Alone: Part 1 of 3: Joss came home from school to discover her father’s suicide. Angry and hurting, she’s out of control.

Girl Alone: Part 1 of 3: Joss came home from school to discover her father’s suicide. Angry and hurting, she’s out of control.
Cathy Glass


Girl Alone can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3 (Chapters 1-9 of 26).You can read Part 1 two weeks ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never gotten over it.This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father’s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then her mother remarries and Joss bitterly resents her step-father who abuses her mentally and physically.Cathy takes Joss under her wing but will she ever be able to get through to the warm-hearted girl she sees glimpses of underneath the vehement outbreaks of anger that dominate the house, and will Cathy be able to build up Joss’s trust so she can learn the full truth of the terrible situation?










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Certain details in this story, including names, places and dates, have been changed to protect the family’s privacy.

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Contents


Cover (#u7bbdb854-5ed9-5d0a-abd1-f215a3ce97af)

Title Page (#ulink_804c46a3-c452-5c4b-872e-c4ca9d4a894f)

Copyright (#ulink_c1629a45-5e49-506c-a02f-18d4f4104d27)

Acknowledgements (#ulink_e725f95a-7a15-5b51-b993-2c87135f405d)

Chapter One: Unsafe Behaviour (#ulink_2acf45c9-b161-5145-87ce-fd3eca71c462)

Chapter Two: I Thought You Loved Me (#ulink_cd10e448-7eb3-5aab-95a6-9f5884d087db)

Chapter Three: Contract of Behaviour (#ulink_497c9419-79f7-51e1-95cb-dbe8c1fade86)

Chapter Four: No Daddy Doll (#ulink_24d7fcba-5598-546d-b93c-6528fc3daadb)

Chapter Five: Eric (#ulink_7a20921c-8eaf-544d-8e6b-682a1052d52e)

Chapter Six: Deceived (#ulink_c2d37d4c-5a5b-52cc-afbb-ba9683c93de8)

Chapter Seven: Letter from the Police (#ulink_765ac8cd-7052-51aa-9401-8af072e5e443)

Chapter Eight: Out of Patience (#ulink_bf7df26c-4faa-5a00-b037-781587aeb303)

Chapter Nine: On Report (#ulink_e8b724d6-f8e7-5bac-8fbe-d371cda88677)

Moving Memoirs eNewsletter (#ue22ae9b2-93b7-5d1f-a242-dd8bb26d0da1)

About the Publisher (#u3b420de5-e6d5-543c-9b62-6c8dd4a7308d)




Acknowledgements (#u7367bcf7-cf8d-5e2c-8515-3b86559ef342)


A big thank-you to my family; my editors, Holly and Carolyn; my literary agent, Andrew; my UK publishers HarperCollins, and my overseas publishers, who are now too numerous to list by name. Last but not least, a big thank-you to my readers for your unfailing support and kind words.





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