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In her latest paperback the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn a sweet & seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet & seemingly well balanced girl Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful that even she could not remember it. During the first night Cathy awoke to see Dawn looming above Cathy's baby's cot her eyes staring & blank. She sleepwalks
- which Cathy learns is often a manifestation in disturbed children. It becomes a regular & frightening occurrence & Cathy is horrified to find Dawn lighting a match whilst mumbling it's not my fault in her sleep one night. Cathy discovers Dawn is playing truant from school & struggling to make friends. More worryingly she finds her room empty one night & her pillow covered in blood. Dawn has been self-harming in order to release the pain of her past. When Dawn attempts suicide Cathy realises that she needs more help than she can give. Dawn's mother eventually confides in her that Dawn was sent away to live with relatives in Ireland between the ages of 5 & 9 & Cathy soon realises that the horrors Dawn was exposed to during this time have left her a very disturbed little girl.