Experience an inspiring true story with Maggie Hartley's Don't Leave Me Here. It explores a bitter custody battle and a mother's desperate act.
'Don't leave me here! Please, don't leave me.'
What possesses a mum to kidnap her own child? That's what Maggie asks herself when she's asked to foster 13-year-old Saskia, the subject of a bitter custody battle between her parents. When Saskia's mum Rosa fears the courts are going to favour her ex-husband, James, she takes matters into her own hands. With Rosa facing criminal charges, and Saskia refusing to live with her dad, her future looks uncertain.
Will Maggie be able to step in and discover the bombshell that will tear this family apart?
From Britain's best-loved foster carer, a new and inspiring true story of secrets and hope.
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.
