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Sold to Be a Wife

By: Maggie Hartley
Narrated by: Penelope McDonald
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Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.

To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home.

But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. Sobbing, she confesses to Maggie that her parents are planning to send her to Pakistan to be married in a few days, and have threatened to kill her if she speaks out again.

Returned to Maggie's care, Shazia is petrified that her parents will track her down and kill her, and Maggie must be on constant alert. But the worst is yet to come when it emerges that Shazia is the victim of FGM. Can Maggie help this damaged and traumatised young girl understand what has happened to her and to find a way to heal?

Read by Penny MacDonald

©2018 Maggie Hartley (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Abuse Child Abuse Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships
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Easy to listen to. Lovely narrative. Some bits upsetting but the harsh reality of some countries still allowing women to be second class citizens and objects good listen.

Sad but very easy listen

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it shows what foster parents do for the children who need help. It is a very sad but great story that needs to be told and shared

unsung heroes

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Could not put this book down even though it had me with tears in my eyes a lot of the time

Tears

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Crazy what goes on in other cultures when the have adopted a new country to live in

Interesting

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Such an interesting and sad book. What some poor young girls have to go through is just absolutely shocking.

Heart wrenching

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