To think Cathy Glass is out of order?

[Sleepgrumpydopey]

She is a famous author for writing about children she has been a foster Carer to. So she is making money from disclosing the stories of these children. It feels so inappropriate .

I know she name changes but it just seems morally wrong and another case of the children being exploited. They should be allowed to publish their own stories and make money for themselves from it.

Or possibly I'm being over judgemental.

that's what I wondered but then she has disclosed that name unless she means she hasn't disclosed her real identity?

I think she probably means that the link between her pseudonym and her real identity isn't disclosed, although it is to her publishers, of course.

ah right. yes that would make sense.

I find casey Watson significantly less smug but similar subject matter. Cathy glass is very very very smug and it bothers me. I can't get past the smugness to enjoy the book.

A load of old bullshit then. A composite? That'll explain all those happy endings then.

I hate misery memoirs. I never read them. These sound exploitative and like Sleepy I could write some hair raising stuff. And get struck off too.

I find the opposite Mittens

Have read a few of CG books, and also a few of CW, I think Casey Watson is far more smug, constantly telling us that her and her DH are very valueable specialist carers, and her own oh so perfect DD Riley.

Think Riley bothers me more than any of them actually.

I have read a lot of CG books andfound them OK.

I don't like CW as I went to read her first book and the way she called the poor boy she was fostering really annoyed me, I couldn't read anymore.

I agree that Riley is extremely irritating. As is her son, can't remember his name.

Actually maybe cw is just as annoying as cg.

Yes her son too, Kieron,

A lot of CW books seem to focus on them, and how perfect they are.

I was thinking about reading a Cathy Glass book, are they worth reading??

Her real name is Lisa Stone 😀

I always feel like a shit parent when I read her books. She makes life seem an absolute doddle with her perfect behaved children and home cooked meals every night, I kind of like the books though

As a foster Carer I hate her books. All those calm and reasoned conversations in vocabulary a child wouldn't grasp, her own perfect children and the fucking ridiculous happy endings. I wish she would stop. None of it bears any relation to reality, they are works of pure fiction with an utterly perfect and smug Carer as the star. All the talk and miraculous behaviour changes are just bullshit.

A thousand times this.

I really dislike her too! (thought it was only me, so happy to find out there are others) I am a foster carer, and find reading her books a bit patronising, far too perfect and un-realistic.
However I do like Torey Heydon's stories, quite happily read anything she writes.

Completely agree. I was bought one as a present years ago and I was truly disgusted. I left a review along the same lines as your OP, on Amazon, and it got a truckload of upvotes (or whatever they call it on there). I assume lots of us feel the same.

I think anybody buying them should reconsider... and then stop.

Lots of people think Cathy ones are fake, people submit their childhood trauma stories to Harper Collins and then find their stories taken and presented like Cathy Glass. I read one by Rosie something and realised the child she was talking about is still a child, at least the Torey ones are from decades ago and are adults (many submit an update to her site). I loved the Torey Hayden books until i read 'Twilight children' and realised the non fiction book didn't have a single real person in except Torey. With some of her books she has updates on nearly all the main 'characters' or a mention she lost track of them but on Ghost Girl there is only an update on Jadie which makes me think all the other characters are fake. I'm also amazed no one has outed the real people even if she changes details. Take Shelia from One child, even if the details of her crime were changed how many 6 year olds in a certain time period in America nearly murdered another child and could probably cross reference other details, for one people must of worked with Torey, been a pupil or patient of hers yet even when you search you never find anyone outside of people featured in the books can be found

I didn't know Cathy Glass was called Lisa Stone, when I googled it this came up
“As a writer of suspense thrillers I often ask myself what if? What if this happened instead of that? Or why a particular person reacted as they did. So often fact is stranger than fiction; these books start with a fact which I develop.”
Lisa Stone lives in England, has 3 children, and 27 books published under the pseudonym Cathy Glass, many of which have become best-sellers.

Why are they sold as non fiction?

Winston Smith, did similar, but mainly to highlight how shite the system for those put in care homes (not youngsters in foster homes)

With both Hayden and Glass they are in positions of power over these vulnerable kids who likely still look up to them and want to please them as adults so even getting something signed doesn't seem right.

I had a very abusive childhood, and one foster carer meant the world to me right through adulthood. If she had asked me even at 25/6 to let her write my story I would have without grasping that I was just pleasing her and I'm sure I would feel very betrayed now.