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Can I Let You Go?: A heartbreaking true story of love, loss and moving on
Can I Let You Go?: A heartbreaking true story of love, loss and moving on
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By Cathy Glass
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Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child.
Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother’s alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnerable, and normally lives with her grandparents, both of whom have mobility problems. Cathy and her children welcome Faye into their home and hearts. The care plan is for Faye to stay with Cathy until after the birth when she will return home and the baby will go for adoption. Given that Faye never goes out alone it is something of a mystery how she ever became pregnant and Faye says it’s a secret.
To begin with Faye won’t acknowledge she is pregnant or talk about the changes in her body as she worries it will upset her grandparents, but after her social worker assures her she can talk to Cathy she opens up. However, this leads to Faye realizing just how much she will lose and she changes her mind and says she wants to keep her baby.
Is it possible Faye could learn enough to parent her child? Cathy believes it is, and Faye’s social worker is obliged to give Faye the chance.
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A story of a young pregnant woman with learning difficulties who in the last three months of her pregnancy comes into the care of the author( a n experienced foster carer).
The telling of the problems and conflicts within both families was written in a very "chatty" way, you could imagine just sitting over coffee with the author and her telling her story. Her style of writing is quite naïve but also heartwarming, and the ending a real tear jerker.
A really thought provoking book. A very sensitive topic and one I felt the book skirted around. For me it did feel a little disjointed and characters a little shallow.
