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Betrayed: The heartbreaking true story of a struggle to escape a cruel life defined by family honour
Betrayed: The heartbreaking true story of a struggle to escape a cruel life defined by family honour
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By Rosie Lewis
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In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the heartbreaking true story of 13-year-old Zadie.
When the young teenage girl runs away from home and is discovered hiding on the city streets by the police, it is clear that all is not as it should be.
Taught to believe that Westerners should not be trusted, when Zadie is initially delivered into the experienced hands of foster carer Rosie she is polite and well-behaved, but understandably suspicious of the family around her. Through Rosie’s support and understanding, gradually Zadie begins to settle into her new surroundings, but loyalty to her relatives, and fear of bringing shame on those around her, prevents her from confessing the horrifying truth about her troubled past.
When the shocking truth finally emerges, Rosie and her family can hardly believe that Zadie had managed to keep the shocking secrets to herself for so long.
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I found this book entirely believable. It is a window onto the problems of abused, neglected children and their foster carers. The subject was sensitively dealt with yet the problems, both for the foster carers and the children in their care were immense. It also brought home to me the difficulties we as a society have in understanding and coping with the different culture and beliefs of our neighbours that may be very different from our own.
