Nonfiction by Maggie Hartley.
This story is by another British foster mother who writes similarly to Cathy Glass (see Saving Danny) and Casey Watson (see Mummy's Little Helper).
At the beginning of this story Jess, a sixteen-year-old girl with a newborn baby, is brought into Maggie's home for foster care. The rest of the book is all about how Jess and her boyfriend Darren (the baby's seventeen-year-old father) have to prove to social services that they can take care of their own baby before it gets taken from them.
This book was difficult for me, because honestly it seemed like poor Jess and Darren were presumed to be bad parents by social services simply because they were young. The pair of them could have been left alone and they probably would have figured things out just fine.
To be fair, Maggie herself was a huge help and worked very hard to keep the three of them together. The problem to me was that that she shouldn't have had to.
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