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The memoir offers a heartfelt and insightful look into the challenges and triumphs of fostering, as experienced by the author, Casey Watson. Through personal anecdotes, Watson shares the emotional journeys of the children she has cared for, highlighting the complexities of their backgrounds and the profound impact of love and support. Her storytelling captures the essence of resilience and the transformative power of family, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in fostering or the human experience.

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose.

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.

A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together...

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.

It's late on Friday night when Casey's mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn't Riley. It's a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike's latest fostering challenge - a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who's run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away.

Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved. 'Am I ugly, Mummy?' are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has a Barbie doll in one hand and a pink vanity case in the other and the bemused Watsons can only stare in amazement at this tiny eight year old girl who is being guided into the room by her social worker. Phillipa, known as Flip has Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and life with her single mother has come to an abrupt end after a fire burned the house down. When Casey meets Flip, the child seems remarkably unfazed by what has happened and the thing that seems to worry her is that Casey might find her ugly. Casey has come across children with FAS in her previous job in a high school behaviour unit, but is now realising that fostering Flip is going to be full of challenges which will test her and Mike's skills to the limit.

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems. This is the first of several stories about `difficult' children Casey helped during her time as a behaviour manager at her local comprehensive.