Innocent

 Nonfiction by Cathy Glass

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Molly and Kit are three years old and eighteen months old, respectively, when they are removed from their parents by Social Services and placed in Cathy Glass's care. The precipitating event is little Kit's broken arm, which the doctor suspects to be non-accidental. Also, in his short year and a half of life, Kit has visited the emergency room almost seventy times.

But a broken arm is not inconsistent with falling down the stairs, as his mother claimed had happened. Cathy isn't sure if the social workers have done the right thing in removing these children. After all, their mother seems so very devoted to them, even if their father seems overworked and a bit checked out. And both children are awfully sickly...

This was a good story with a surprising ending! 

(And, yes, this story did seem to merit all those italics in my descriptors.)

I also read recently by this author: Where Has Mummy Gone?