Sky's Story

Thrown Away Children, Book 5

De: Louise Allen

Narrado por: Melanie Crawley

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives.

But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?

©2022 Louise Allen (P)2022 W F Howes

Good book !

Love these stories of foster care kids, really hits home and so very true. Great to listen to clean stories that’s not all about sex. Thank you for the great stories.

I was a foster parent doing the “Hard” kids too. Loved it and enjoy hearing stories from other foster parents

Loved it all. It was a great story. She dealt very well with Sky and realized Sky needed more.

THANK GOD FOR THE LOUISE & LLOYDS OF THIS WORLD…!

It’s hard for my mind and my heart to accept that parents like Hannah and John could treat their children they way they did hHNK GOHH made them live in such FILTHY circumstances. Unless you are living in the hell yourself, or know someone who is, the majority of us remain ignorant and insulated, not noticing the kids around us who may be trapped in a home of horrors.

THANK GOD for caring people like Louise and Lloyd who are willing to take troubled kids from homes like Sky’s and Avril’s was? Where’s would they have landed? Who would have cared for these two girls as lovingly Louise and Lloyd did, even with all the upheaval it cost to them and their already established children? I know I certainly wouldn’t be able to stand up and say, “I’ll take them on!”

Take them on they did — body odor and strange behaviors they did! The behaviors and deficits in the girls’ social skills made them hard enough to work with and to love, but add in a CRAZY, manipulating mother like Hannah, and after two days, I would have been in the phone with the Social Worker on Day Two screaming to take the kids and to find the girls a new placement or to send them packing off to a child’s care facility — ANYWHERE but in MY home!

Louise and Lloyd have my greatest admiration for their courage, strength and their willingness to keep working through each of the many problems that kept arising because of the shear meanness and interference from the girls’ mother Hannah, whom one would THINK would have the best interest of her children at heart.

I don’t know what suddenly woke Hannah up, but I was happy to read in the Epilogue, that SOMETHING shook her up, made her realize what she was doing to two innocent children, and begin to make huge strides to change her life drastically. I wonder if it was too late for the girls to go on and live a “normal” life and be fully functioning members of society.

It sounds as if Avril is doing well and is on tract to being licensed as a massage therapist. But, little is said about Sky and her future. What has become of her? I’d love to know what has happened with Sky as she has aged.

Thank you to both Louise and Lloyd, and to ALL the foster parents who take on the “tough kids.” May God bless each and every one of you! You may not be able to change the world with your hard work and the LOVE your pour into these kids, but to the kids you are able to help, you change THEIR WORLD!💕

The narrator of this book did a fantastic job.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

A very touching story.

As always, Louise Allen's books are so well written, so raw and so well narrated. As a devoted listener to all of her books, I'm never disappointed. Highly recommend the listen!

another great book

as always, her books are great and inspiring. thankful this author shares her experiences for us

Sad story told well

I like the stories told by foster carers like Louise Allen and applaud their work. I don’t know how they do it but they manage to save lives of children who are having a very hard time.

decent but distracted

could've done without the incredibly rude fatphobia towards a five year old child. I hope Sky never reads this.