Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mothertakes her from her parents' house and disappears. Cathy spends three anxious days worrying about her whereabouts befor
The night the angels came: the heartbreaking true story of a young boy's loss
โ Scribed by Cathy Glass
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;HarperElement
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 477 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007445695
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โฆ Synopsis
When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widower terrified of leaving his son all alone in the world, she is wracked with sadness and indecision. After her devastating divorce, can she risk exposing her own young children to a little boy on the brink of bereavement? Eight year old Michael is part of a family of two, but with his beloved father given only months to live and his mother having died when he was a toddler, he could soon become an orphan. Will Cathy?s own young family be able to handle a child in mourning? To Cathy?s surprise, her children insist that this boy deserves to be as happy as they are, prompting Cathy to welcome Michael into her home. A cheerful and carefree new member of the family, Michael devotedly prays every night, believing that when the time is right, angels will come and take his Daddy to be with his Mummy in heaven. However, incredibly, in the weeks that pass, the bond between Cathy?s family, Michael and his kind and loving father Patrick...
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