Sold to be a wife
Hartley, Maggie2018
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14-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home. But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. Sobbing, she confesses to Maggie that her parents are planning to send her to Pakistan to be married in a few days, and have threatened to kill her if she speaks out again. Returned to Maggie's care, Shazia is petrified that her parents will track her down and kill her.
Main title:
Sold to be a wife / Maggie Hartley.
Author:
Hartley, Maggie, author
Imprint:
London : Trapeze, 2018.
Collation:
236 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781409177067 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.733092362.733 HAR362.733
Local class:
362.733092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2694569