"The heart-rending story of a child with footballing talent brought into Louise’s home as a foster placement on the run from a County Lines gang."
Throughout all of the books Louise Allen has written, the details of the children featured are changes in order to protect their identities. Never has that been more important than with Diego’s Story. Through this foster placement Louise learns more about the terrifyingly expansive county lines network ensnaring the country and in doing so shares its sinister omnipresence with the reader. When Diego arrives with the additional support and security provided by specialist company ‘Freeedom’.
Diego’s love for football and Liverpool FC provide him respite and a way to connect with his foster siblings. But his stay is far from smooth sailing.
Diego’s Story is the 13th of the Thrown Away Children series, and as with the other stories shared so far Louise deftly brings each child to life alongside the experience of being a foster carer. You are welcomed into the hubbub of everyday life, the dishwasher cycles and the scourge of the bullying ginger tom cat.
All this not only adds personality to the story but connects you with the Allen family and with Diego. It makes for compelling reading. This engaging writing continues as Louise shares her frustrations about reaching out to the school with her concerns, her experiences with the social workers and the world that children are being raised into.
As always, Diego’s story is shared with thoughtful honesty and personal insight that draws you into the realities of the UK foster care system.
Diego's Story is the thirteenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children paperback series.
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Diego's Story is the thirteenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children paperback series. Diego and his siblings live in desperate poverty, but nobody seems to notice or care as they come close to starving, scouring food banks to survive.
Diego's Story features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Memoirs
Paperback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
Diego's Story was written by Louise Allen and published by Mirror Books
Diego's Story has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Thrown Away Children series
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
