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    Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?
    Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?
    Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?
    Audiobook9 hours

    Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?

    Written by Casey Watson

    Narrated by Kate Lock

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    About this audiobook

    Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved.

    ‘Am I ugly, Mummy?’ are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has a Barbie doll in one hand and a pink vanity case in the other and the bemused Watsons can only stare in amazement at this tiny eight year old girl who is being guided into the room by her social worker.
    Phillipa, known as Flip has Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and life with her single mother has come to an abrupt end after a fire burned the house down. When Casey meets Flip, the child seems remarkably unfazed by what has happened and the thing that seems to worry her is that Casey might find her ugly.
    Casey has come across children with FAS in her previous job in a high school behaviour unit, but is now realising that fostering Flip is going to be full of challenges which will test her and Mike’s skills to the limit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9780008144548
    Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?
    Author

    Casey Watson

    Casey Watson, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer. She and her husband, Mike, look after children who are particularly troubled or damaged by their past. Before becoming a foster carer Casey was a behaviour manager for her local comprehensive school. It was through working with these ‘difficult’ children – removed from mainstream classes for various reasons – that the idea for her future career was born. Casey is married with two children and three grandchildren.

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    • 5/5
      A touching look at the real meaning of beauty, warmed with the generous and indomitable spirit of the author.
    • 5/5
      Love all of Casey Watson's books. I hope Flip learned to see herself as beautiful
    • 5/5
      What a brilliant story. It was a little hard at first to establish what was going on but after chapter 10 I was hooked. Xxxx