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Mia Marconi has an Italian father and an Irish mother. She grew up in London and has been a foster carer here for over 20 years. During that time she has welcomed more than 250 children into her home.This is her debut memoir. To protect the identities of people she is writing about she is using a pseudonym.
A Child Called Hope: The true story of a foster mother's love (HarperTrue Life - A Short Read)
by Mia Marconi
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9780007584420
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 03/28/2014
- Series: Medizin, Technik Und Gesellschaft
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 88
- Sales rank: 291,553
- File size: 790 KB
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A dramatic debut short story from London-based foster carer Mia Marconi.An incredible chain of events that began in Italy during WWII with an illegitimate pregnancy shaped Mia’s destiny. The illegitimate child was her father, a lost soul who she idolised. Protecting him instilled in her an instinct to care for the vulnerable and, after a chance meeting with a chaotic foster family, she decided fostering was her vocation.In an incredible twist of fate, the first baby she fostered was born to an unmarried Italian girl. Then came Hope, so badly damaged by her teenage mother’s alcoholism she was in hospital for a year. Finally discharged and settled in Mia’s happy home, what happened next would make Mia question if she could carry on.harpertrue.co.uk
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