Sold To Be A Wife, Maggie Hartley
Sold To Be A Wife, Maggie Hartley
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Sold To Be A Wife
Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

Author: Maggie Hartley

Narrator: Penelope McDonald

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Trapeze

Published: 09/20/2018

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.

To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home.

But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. Sobbing, she confesses to Maggie that her parents are planning to send her to Pakistan to be married in a few days, and have threatened to kill her if she speaks out again.

Returned to Maggie's care, Shazia is petrified that her parents will track her down and kill her, and Maggie must be on constant alert. But the worst is yet to come when it emerges that Shazia is the victim of FGM. Can Maggie help this damaged and traumatised young girl understand what has happened to her and to find a way to heal?

Read by Penny MacDonald
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

About Maggie Hartley

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies.You can find her on Facebook at /MaggieHartleyAuthor, where she would love to hear from you.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on October 10, 2018

This was a really good story, I really love these types of books. It was very sad the way it all had to end though and so final however it was better for the child concerned. Lovely book and I can't wait for her next one.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on October 24, 2022

This is the sad and inspiring story of a young Muslim woman whose family wanted to take her to Pakistan for a forced arranged marriage. Beaten, burned, and genitally mutilated by her parents and brothers, she was kept locked for days without food in a dark basement. This is the story of her escape e......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on October 06, 2020

Horrifically sad story, about a young girl named Shazia who (at the end of the book) has to take on a new identity due to her parent's obsession with moving her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. It is told with such poignancy by Maggie Hartley, her social worker who becomes Shazia's strength and......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on December 12, 2019

Here we meet “Shazia”, a 14 year old bought into Maggie’s care after her parents’ plans to force her back to Pakistan for an arranged marriage came to light. After receiving endless threats from her family which hinted strongly at “honour killing”, drastic measures were taken to keep this young girl......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on April 03, 2019

A quick, engrossing, and troubling read.......more

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