The Year of the Child

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Fifteen year-old Leanne Ellsworth leaves her infant daughter in a planter on a stranger's front porch and walks away, She has been convinced by her abusive boyfriend, Peter, that she has no choice: she can abandon her child or he will kill them both.

Without her baby girl, Leanne's fear turns to anger, then self-pity, and finally a determination to get her child back. She enlists the help of an over-worked legal aid attorney, her long-suffering mom, Vennie, and Mary Beth Coggins, on whose porch she left the baby.

As Leanne navigates the layers of bureaucracy now standing between her and her daughter, she finds a strength she never imagined she possessed while she was being bullied by Peter: a strength that allows her to take command of her own life, and to make decisions based on what is best for herself and her child.