Blood family

Description:

Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done.

subjects: Abused children,  Juvenile fiction,  Families,  Adoption,  Foster home care,  Social workers,  Child abuse,  Abused women,  Family violence,  Fiction,  YOUNG ADULT FICTION,  Boys & Men,  Family,  Orphans & Foster Homes,  Social Themes,  Physical & Emotional Abuse,  Children's fiction,  Family, fiction,  Child abuse, fiction